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Title: Making sense of the conflicting magic numbers in WSi n clusters

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  1. Department of Physics, Virginia Commonwealth University, 701 West Grace Street, Richmond, Virginia 23220, USA
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Journal of Chemical Physics
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Journal Name: Journal of Chemical Physics Journal Volume: 143 Journal Issue: 7; Journal ID: ISSN 0021-9606
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American Institute of Physics
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United States
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English

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Abreu, Marissa Baddick, Reber, Arthur C., and Khanna, Shiv N. Making sense of the conflicting magic numbers in WSi n clusters. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.1063/1.4928755.
Abreu, Marissa Baddick, Reber, Arthur C., & Khanna, Shiv N. Making sense of the conflicting magic numbers in WSi n clusters. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4928755
Abreu, Marissa Baddick, Reber, Arthur C., and Khanna, Shiv N. Fri . "Making sense of the conflicting magic numbers in WSi n clusters". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4928755.
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