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A reply to the discussion by W. Barry Butler on “damage of concrete sleepers by calcium chloride”

✍ Scribed by L. Berntsson; S. Chandra

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1982
Tongue
English
Weight
63 KB
Volume
12
Category
Article
ISSN
0008-8846

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