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Salvatore Cannistraro, Yves Lion, Albert van de Vorst, Formyl Radicals in X-Irradiated Frozen Aqueous Solutions of DNA and Nucleic Acids Constituents, Radiation Research, Vol. 64, No. 3 (Dec., 1975), pp. 581-592
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