Magnesium: The first quarter millennium

JOM

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 26-33

  Holywell, George C ^a  

^a Almagi Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROLYSIS; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; INDUSTRY; TITANIUM;

CANADA; FRANCE; MAGNESIUM INDUSTRY; PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF CHINA; RUSSIA; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA;

MAGNESIUM PRINTING PLATES;

EID: 24044510828     PISSN: 10474838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11837-005-0248-1     Document Type: Article

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