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Disintegration of polymers by a hydrolytic mechanism

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A. F. Ioffe Physicotechnical Institute, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Leningrad. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 5, pp. 854–860, September–October, 1977.

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Bershtein, V.A., Egorova, L.M. & Solov'ev, V.V. Disintegration of polymers by a hydrolytic mechanism. Polymer Mechanics 13, 715–721 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00860323

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