Adsorption of Titanium Tetrachloride on Magnesium Dichloride Clusters

ACS Omega

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2018, Pages 9921-9928

  Zorve, Peter ^a   Linnolahti, Mikko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

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EID: 85052608112     PISSN: None     EISSN: 24701343     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.8b01878     Document Type: Article

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