Statistical network theory of silica deposition and dissolution in diatomite

In Situ

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 21-53

  Bhat, S K ^a,b   Kovscek, A R ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Osbourne House   (United Kingdom)

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