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Qualitative assessment of the mutagenicity of road coating asphalt

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  1. Sherry L. Henry Gage

    Present address: Gage and Associates, P.O. Box 25, 59840, Hamilton, Montana, USA

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  1. School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science, University of Oklahoma, 202 West Boyd Street, Room 334, 73019, Norman, Oklahoma, USA

    Sherry L. Henry Gage & James M. Robertson

  2. Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Texas A&M University, 77843-2474, College Station, Texas, USA

    K. C. Donnelly

  3. Department of Chemistry, University of Oklahoma, 73019, Norman, Oklahoma, USA

    Arnulf P. Hagen

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Henry Gage, S.L., Robertson, J.M., Donnelly, K.C. et al. Qualitative assessment of the mutagenicity of road coating asphalt. Bull. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 47, 617–622 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01700954

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