Industrial Plastics: Theory and Application

by Terry L. Richardson

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0538338903
• ISBN13: 9780538338905
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Thomson South-Western
• Length: 601 Pages

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