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The Green Leaf as a Heat Engine

Nature volume 198, pages 934–937 (1963)Cite this article

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SPANNER, D. The Green Leaf as a Heat Engine. Nature 198, 934–937 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/198934a0

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