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Textural and thermo-chemical methods of characterizations of solid materials, metals and oxides.

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Schmal, M. (2016). Textural and Thermochemical Characterizations. In: Heterogeneous Catalysis and its Industrial Applications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09250-8_6

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