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Methods for measuring the orientation of polyolefins

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Institute of Chemical Physics, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 1, pp. 143–155, January–February, 1977.

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Kissin, Y.V., Fridman, M.L. Methods for measuring the orientation of polyolefins. Polymer Mechanics 13, 137–149 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00857292

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