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High-throughput Fluorometric Measurement of Potential Soil Extracellular Enzyme Activities

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Bettina Wahrig¹

¹Abteilung für Pharmazie- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Beethovenstr. 55, 38106, Braunschweig, Germany, b.wahrig@tu-bs.de.

|October 30, 2013

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