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Articles | Volume 9, issue 5
Articles | Volume 9, issue 5
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08 Oct 2013
Research article |  | 08 Oct 2013

The transient distributions of nuclear weapon-generated tritium and its decay product 3 He in the Mediterranean Sea, 1952–2011, and their oceanographic potential

W. Roether, P. Jean-Baptiste, E. Fourré, and J. Sültenfuß

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