Letter to the Editor: The concept of chemical bond - Some like it fuzzy but others concrete

Foundations of Chemistry

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 85-95

  Shahbazian, Shant ^a   Zahedi, Mansour ^a  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

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EID: 33847612102     PISSN: 13864238     EISSN: 15728463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10698-006-9023-9     Document Type: Letter

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