Digging Deep: Ion Chromatography and Climate Change

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Volume 9
Issue 8

The Column spoke to Dr Ailsa Benton - an "ice core" analytical scientist from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) research team - about the role of chromatography in climate change.

The Column spoke to Dr Ailsa Benton — an “ice core” analyticalscientist from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) research team —about the role of chromatography in climate change.

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