Detection, Identification, and Occurrence of Thiotetronic Acids in Drinking Water from Underground Sources by Electrospray Ionization-High Field Asymmetric Waveform Ion Mobility Spectrometry-Quadrupole Time-of-Flight-Mass Spectrometry

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