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| Title | Waste Products and Undeveloped Substances: Or, Hints for Enterprise in Neglected Fields |
| Author | Peter Lund Simmonds |
| Publisher | R. Hardwicke, 1862 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 29 May 2007 |
| Length | 430 pages |
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