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Measuring Carbon-based Contaminant Mineralization Using Combined CO2 Flux and Radiocarbon Analyses
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Ekaterina Svertoka1,2, Mihaela Bălănescu3, George Suciu3
1Department of Telecommunications, University Politehnica of Bucharest, 061071 Bucharest, Romania.
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
|April 26, 2025
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