Magnetite: Structure, properties and applications

Magnetite: Structure, Properties and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 355-366

  Størmer, Fredrik C ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

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