Isotactic polypropylene biodegradation by a microbial community: physicochemical characterization of metabolites produced

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• Publication year

  1993

• Venue

  Applied and Environmental Microbiology

• Publication date

  1993-11-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Chemistry, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1128/aem.59.11.3695-3700.1993PMID 8285678PMCID PMC182519
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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