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Original paper

Fuat Yavuz, Vural Yavuz

WinSpingc, a Windows program for spinel supergroup minerals

Journal of Geosciences, volume 68 (2023), issue 2, 95 - 110

DOI: http://doi.org/10.3190/jgeosci.369

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