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The impurities of biological dyes: their detection, removal, occurrence and histological significance—a review

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Horobin, R.W. The impurities of biological dyes: their detection, removal, occurrence and histological significance—a review. Histochem J 1, 231–265 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01081411

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