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Programmed Temperature Pyrolysis

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Peters, K.E., Rodriguez, L.B. (2017). Programmed Temperature Pyrolysis. In: White, W. (eds) Encyclopedia of Geochemistry. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39193-9_148-1

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