Ferroelectric-like Properties of Hornet Structures or Constructions

Physiological Chemistry and Physics and Medical NMR

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 185-201

  Ishay, Jacob S ^a   Litinetsky, Luba ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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