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Original Articles

QSAR Analyses of the Toxicity of Aliphatic Carboxylic Acids and Salts to Tetrahymena Pyriformis

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Pages 557-567 | Received 12 May 1999, Accepted 31 Jul 1999, Published online: 24 Sep 2006

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