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Journal Article: Kropp, J.L. and Windsor, M.W. (1963) Enhancement of fluorescence yield to fare earth ions by heavy water. J. Chem. Phys ., 39 (10): 2769–2770.
Book: Welz, B. and Sperling, M. (1999) Atomic Absorption Spectrometry . 3rd ed. Wiley: Weinheim, Germany.
Book Chapter: Mayo, D.W. (2004) Characteristics frequencies of alkanes. In Course Notes on the Interpretation of Infrared and Raman Spectra , Mayo, D.W., Miller, F.A., and Hannah, R.W., Eds. John Wiley & Sons: Hoboken, NJ, pp. 33–72.
Chapters from Same Book: (a) Mayo, D.W. (2004) Characteristics frequencies of alkanes. In Course Notes on the Interpretation of Infrared and Raman Spectra , Mayo, D.W., Miller, F.A., and Hannah, R.W., Eds. John Wiley & Sons: Hoboken, NJ, pp. 33–72. (b) Mayo, D.W. (2004) Characteristics frequencies of aromatic compounds. In Course Notes on the Interpretation of Infrared and Raman Spectra , Mayo, D.W., Miller, F.A., and Hannah, R.W., Eds. John Wiley & Sons: Hoboken, NJ, pp. 101–140.
Conference: Shur, M. (2005) Terahertz technology: Devices and applications. Proceedings of ESSCIRC, Solid-State Circuits Conference , Grenoble, France, September 12–16.
Web page: Davis, K.S. (2001) Corn milling, processing and generation of co-products. Available at: http://www.ddgs.umn.edu/articles-proc-storage-quality/2001-Davis-%20Processing.pdf (accessed November 2011).
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