Conductivity and hardness changes in aged compacts

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Quantitative Hardness Measurement by Instrumented AFM-indentation
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Published on: November 22, 2016

R P Bhatia, N G Lordi

    Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences
    |July 1, 1979
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