Osmium contamination of seawater samples stored in polyethylene bottles

Limnology and Oceanography: Methods

Volumn 10, Issue SEPTEMBER, 2012, Pages 618-630

  Sharma, Mukul ^a   Chen, Cynthia ^a   Blazina, Tim ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

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EID: 84867684219     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15415856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lom.2012.10.618     Document Type: Article

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