Environmental aqueous geochemistry of actinides

Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry

Volumn 38, Issue , 1999, Pages 221-253

  Murphy, William M ^a   Shock, Everett L ^b  

^a SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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