Articles | Volume 15, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-1435-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-1435-2015
Research article
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10 Feb 2015
Research article |  | 10 Feb 2015

Ultraviolet and visible complex refractive indices of secondary organic material produced by photooxidation of the aromatic compounds toluene and m-xylene

P. F. Liu, N. Abdelmalki, H.-M. Hung, Y. Wang, W. H. Brune, and S. T. Martin

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