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Nature

Volumn 455, Issue 7216, 2008, Pages

  Tsakmakidis, Kosmas L ^a   Boardman, Alan D ^b   Hess, Ortwin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DISPERSION; LIGHT; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM YIELD;

EID: 54549122591     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07360     Document Type: Note

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