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Original Paper

František Laufek, Jiří Sejkora, Michal Dušek

The role of silver in the crystal structure of pyrargyrite: single crystal X-ray diffraction study

Journal of Geosciences, volume 55 (2010), issue 2, 161 - 167

DOI: http://doi.org/10.3190/jgeosci.067


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