The hardness test is key to diagnosis of factitious calcium carbonate stones.
Department of Clinical Chemistry and Diagnostic Endocrinology, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
Peadar G
PG
McGing
Keith J
KJ
Mulready
Desmond
D
McGoldrick
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