Industrial chemicals from fermentation
โ Scribed by Godfred E. Tong
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1979
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 724 KB
- Volume
- 1
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0141-0229
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