Chapter 11 Biochemical basis of microbe-radionuclide interactions

Radioactivity in the Environment

Volumn 2, Issue C, 2002, Pages 313-342

  Lloyd, Jon R ^a   Macaskie, Lynne E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1016/S1569-4860(02)80040-7     Document Type: Article

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