Hot Carbon: Carbon-14 and a Revolution in Science
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Columbia University Press, 2019.
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John F. Marra., & John F. Marra|AUTHOR. (2019). Hot Carbon: Carbon-14 and a Revolution in Science . Columbia University Press.
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