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Mass Spectrometric Characterization of Epoxidized Vegetable Oils

Ákos Kuki1, Tibor Nagy2, Mahir Hashimov3

  • 1Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Debrecen, Egyetem tér 1., H-4032 Debrecen, Hungary. kuki.akos@science.unideb.hu.

Polymers
|April 10, 2019
PubMed

Keywords:
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