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PHILIP G. BARKER, F B C S , F R S C Principal Lecturer in Computer Science, Teesside Polytechnic Sometime Lecturer in Computing, University of Durham Sometime SRC Research Fellow, Department of Chemistry (Swansea), University of Wales
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Barker, Philip G . C o m p u t e r s in analytical chemistry. ( P e r g a m o n series in analytical chemistry ; v. 6) Includes bibliographical references a n d indexes. I . C h e m i s t r y , A n a l y t i c — D a t a processing. I. Title. II