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Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 601458, 5 pages
doi:10.5402/2012/601458
Research Article

Determination of Oxygen Solubility in Liquid Media

Francielo Vendruscolo,1 Márcio José Rossi,2 Willibaldo Schmidell,1 and Jorge Luiz Ninow1

1Chemical and Food Engineering Department, Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), P.O. Box 476, 88040-900 Florianópolis, SC, Brazil
2Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology Department, Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), P.O. Box 476, 88040-900 Florianópolis, SC, Brazil

Received 23 February 2012; Accepted 26 April 2012

Academic Editors: G. Bayramoglu and A. Brucato

Copyright © 2012 Francielo Vendruscolo et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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