On the “surface law” and basal metabolic rate
✍ Scribed by B.F. Gray
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1981
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 565 KB
- Volume
- 93
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-5193
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