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Letter to Editor

Physical Mechanism for Inactivation of Metallo-enzymes by Characteristic X-rays: Analysis of the Data of Jawad and Watt

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Pages 651-656 | Received 12 Jun 1987, Published online: 03 Jul 2009

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