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Philip L Marston1, Timothy D Daniel1, Auberry R Fortuner1

  • 1Physics and Astronomy Department, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164-2814, USA.

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
|August 3, 2021
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