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Estimation of thickness of concentration boundary layers by osmotic volume flux determination

Jolanta S Jasik-Ślęzak1, Kornelia M Olszówka, Andrzej Slęzak

  • 1Department of Public Health, Częstochowa University of Technology, Armia Krajowa al. 36b, 42 200 Częstochowa, Poland. ajslezak@zim.pcz.pl

General Physiology and Biophysics
|May 27, 2011
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