MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUT FÜR WISSENSCHAFTSGESCHICHTE Max Planck Institute for the History of Science 2008 PREPRINT 356 Viola Balz, Alexander v. Schwerin, Heiko Stoff, Bettina Wahrig (eds.) Precarious Matters / Prekäre Stoffe The History of Dangerous and Endangered Substances in the 19th and 20th Centuries /// ... From the mid-19th century onwards Kontakt: the life sciences have been establishing workshop the molecular structures of various groups Katsiaryna Barrenscheen precarious matters of substances, ascribing to them the
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