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    Vytenis Babrauskas

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Babrauskas, V. (2018). Hot Metal Particles. In: Manzello, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Wildfires and Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Fires. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51727-8_2-1

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