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Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Spektroskopii, Vol. 35, No. 4, pp. 671–677, October, 1981.
The authors wish to express their gratitude to N. D. Semenovich for her help in obtaining the bacteriochlorophyll, and to G. P. Gurinovich for his valuable remarks.
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Losev, A.P., Lyal'kova, N.D. & Sagun, E.I. Energy of lower triplet states in carotenoids series and bacteriochlorophyllic pigments. J Appl Spectrosc 35, 1127–1133 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00605661
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