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Australian Journal of Earth Sciences
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Original Articles

Experiments of methane gas solubility in formation water under high temperature and high pressure and their geological significance

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Pages 335-342 | Received 04 Nov 2015, Accepted 08 Feb 2017, Published online: 07 Mar 2017

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