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Commission on Neutron Scattering

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Workshop on Raw diffraction data reuse: the good, the bad and the challenging

Workshop on When should small molecule crystallographers publish raw diffraction data?

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COMCIFS Symposium at ECM-28, Warwick: August 25 2013

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