Isotope fractionation during transformation processes

Environmental Isotopes in Biodegradation and Bioremediation

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 79-126

  Hunkeler, Daniel ^a   Morasch, Barbara ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

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