An Approach to Validation of Solubility Databases for Performance Assessment

Radiochimica Acta

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 407-412

  McKinley, I G ^a   Alexander, W R ^b   Gautschi, A ^a   Waber, N ^b  

^a NAGRA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

HLW TRU; Performance assessment; Solubility; Validation

Indexed keywords

EID: 1542423648     PISSN: 00338230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1524/ract.1998.82.special-issue.407     Document Type: Article

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