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Boston University, Department of chemistry, Boston, MA 02215, USA. Published in Zhurnal Prikladnoi Spektroskopii, Vol. 62, No. 4, pp. 209–231, July–August, 1995.

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Lempicki, A. The physics of inorganic scintillators. J Appl Spectrosc 62, 787–802 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02606530

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