The Spinning Rotation of Ash and Tulip Tree Samaras

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• Publication year

  1977

• Venue

  Science

• Publication date

  1977-08-12

• Fields of study

  Biology, Mathematics, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1126/science.197.4304.691PMID 17776273
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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