Existing dioxin inventories worldwide and a new methodology to establish comparable and complete release inventories
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عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Science and Pollution Research
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0944-1344,1614-7499
DOI: 10.1007/bf02987389