An alternative oven method combined with different detergent strengths in the analysis of neutral detergent fibre

Animal Feed Science and Technology

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 281-288

  Chai, Weizhong ^a   Udén, Peter ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Detergent; Fibre; Methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001047495     PISSN: 03778401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-8401(98)00187-4     Document Type: Article

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