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RESEARCH ARTICLE

Environmental chemistry: a discipline standing on two shoulders

Montserrat Filella
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A Institute F.-A. Forel, University of Geneva, Route de Suisse 10, CH-1290 Versoix, Switzerland. Email: montserrat.filella@unige.ch

B SCHEMA, Rue Principale 92, L-6990 Rameldange, Luxembourg.

Environmental Chemistry 11(1) 37-40 https://doi.org/10.1071/EN13180
Submitted: 6 October 2013  Accepted: 16 December 2013   Published: 25 February 2014


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