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A review is presented on abundance determinations in stars of the Galactic bulge, both in the field and in globular clusters. Previous low-resolution spectroscopy results are revised. Recent high resolution and high S/N spectroscopy results based on Keck-Hires, Gemini-Phoenix and VLT-UVES data are presented. Finally, recent analyses of FLAMES data are discussed.

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Barbuy, B. et al. (2006). Abundances in the Galactic Bulge. In: Randich, S., Pasquini, L. (eds) Chemical Abundances and Mixing in Stars in the Milky Way and its Satellites. ESO ASTROPHYSICS SYMPOSIA. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-34136-9_34

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