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Mehdi Zamani1, Ali Moradi Delfani1, Morteza Jabbari1

  • 1School of Chemistry, Damghan University, Damghan 36716-41167, Iran.

Spectrochimica Acta. Part A, Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy
|May 15, 2018
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AdsorptionAntioxidantDFTDPPHRadical scavengerγ-Alumina

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