Cavitation as a plausible driving force for the prebiotic formation of N9 purine nucleosides

@inproceedings{Patehebieke2021CavitationAA,
  title={Cavitation as a plausible driving force for the prebiotic formation of N9 purine nucleosides},
  author={Yeersen Patehebieke and Ze-Run Zhao and Su-Lein Wang and Haoqing Xu and Qianqian Chen and Xiao Wang},
  year={2021}
}
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