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Organic Intermediates and Dyes Research Institute. Translated from Zhurnal Strukturnoi Khimii, Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 137–155, January–February, 1991.

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Sonin, A.S. What are liquid crystals? (on the 100th anniversary of the discovery). J Struct Chem 32, 111–129 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00744953

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