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Airborne organochlorines in the Canadian High Arctic Cover

Airborne organochlorines in the Canadian High Arctic

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|Jan 1989

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Language: English
Page range: 243 - 255
Submitted on: Nov 23, 1987
Accepted on: Jun 9, 1988
Published on: Jan 1, 1989
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 1989 G. W. Patton, D. A. Hinckley, M. D. Walla, T. F. Bidleman, B. T. Hargrave, published by Stockholm University Press
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