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Untargeted Metabolomics from Biological Sources Using Ultraperformance Liquid Chromatography-High Resolution Mass Spectrometry (UPLC-HRMS)
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Identification of metabolites of hexazinone by mass spectrometry

R W Reiser, I J Belasco, R C Rhodes

    Biomedical Mass Spectrometry
    |November 1, 1983
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