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Multi-scale characterization of glaucophane from Chiavolino (Biella, Italy): implications for international regulations on elongate mineral particles
Ruggero Vigliaturo
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Department of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Pennsylvania, 240 S. 33rd Street, Hayden Hall, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Sabrina M. Elkassas
Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, USA
Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA
Giancarlo Della Ventura
Department of Geological Sciences, University of Roma Tre, Rome, Italy
INFN-Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Frascati, Rome, Italy
Günther J. Redhammer
Department of Materials Science and Physics, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
Francisco Ruiz-Zepeda
Department of Physics and Chemistry of Materials, Institute of Metals and Technology, Lepi pot 11, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Department of Materials Chemistry, National Institute of Chemistry, Hajdrihova 19, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Michael J. O'Shea
Department of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Pennsylvania, 240 S. 33rd Street, Hayden Hall, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Goran Dražić
Department of Materials Chemistry, National Institute of Chemistry, Hajdrihova 19, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Reto Gieré
Department of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Pennsylvania, 240 S. 33rd Street, Hayden Hall, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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