The Environmental Impacts of Fire-Fighting Foams
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عنوان ژورنال: Research Papers Faculty of Materials Science and Technology Slovak University of Technology
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1338-0532,1336-1589
DOI: 10.2478/v10186-010-0033-z