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A method to characterize the greenness of solvents used in pharmaceutical manufacture

C. Stewart Slater Department of Chemical Engineering, Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey, USA
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Mariano Savelski Department of Chemical Engineering, Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey, USA
Pages 1595-1605 | Received 31 Jan 2007, Published online: 19 Oct 2007

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