Autometallographic tracing of gold, silver, bismuth, mercury, and zinc

Gold and Silver Staining: Techniques in Molecular Morphology

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 13-27

  Danscher, Gorm ^a   Hacker, Gerhard W ^b   Stoltenberg, Meredin ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

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