The power of databases: The RRUFF project

Highlights in Mineralogical Crystallography

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 1-29

  Lafuente, Barbara ^a   Downs, Robert T ^a   Yang, Hexiong ^a   Stone, Nate ^b  

^a The University of Arizona   (United States)

^b Open Data Repository   (United States)

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EID: 84979173014     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1515/9783110417104-003     Document Type: Chapter

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