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Characterization, Quantification and Compound-specific Isotopic Analysis of Pyrogenic Carbon Using Benzene Polycarboxylic Acids (BPCA)
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Characterization, Quantification and Compound-specific Isotopic Analysis of Pyrogenic Carbon Using Benzene Polycarboxylic Acids (BPCA)

Published on: May 16, 2016

Gas chromatographic/mass spectrometric determination of carbon isotope composition in unpurified samples:

I A Low, R H Liu, M G Legendre

    Biomedical & Environmental Mass Spectrometry
    |October 1, 1986
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