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- ↑ da www.elenabrunetti.it/cartella/colleferro/esplosione.htm Archived April 9, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Determinants in the evolution of the European chemical industry, 1900-1939, Anthony S. Travis, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1998, p.293.
- ↑ SNIA history. Archived April 6, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Jane's article on Medusa.
