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Original Articles

The effective atomic number and the mass attenuation coefficient of a multicomponent object for the continuous spectrum of the radiation

Pages 79-89 | Received 13 Jun 2015, Accepted 18 Jan 2016, Published online: 22 Feb 2016

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