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Nature of the luminescence centers in amorphous silica

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Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Éksperimental'naya Khimiya, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 385–391, May–June, 1981.

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Eremenko, A.M., Tropinov, A.G., Smirnova, N.P. et al. Nature of the luminescence centers in amorphous silica. Theor Exp Chem 17, 295–299 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00519500

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