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- ↑ Marco Fontani; Mariagrazia Costa; Mary Virginia Orna (13 October 2014). The Lost Elements: The Periodic Table's Shadow Side. Oxford University Press. pp. 122–123. ISBN 978-0-19-938334-4.
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