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R L Affleck1, W P Ambrose, J N Demas

  • 1Chemical Science and Technology Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, and Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22901.

Analytical Chemistry
|May 31, 2011
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