Francis Aston and the mass spectrograph

Journal of the Chemical Society - Dalton Transactions

Volumn , Issue 23, 1998, Pages 3893-3899

  Squires, Gordon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 25144510045     PISSN: 03009246     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/a804629h     Document Type: Article

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