Roles of micro-organisms in the environmental fate of radionuclides

CIBA Foundation Symposia

Volumn , Issue 203, 1997, Pages 94-108

  Gadd, G M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

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