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Ricinoleic acid: Current view of an ancient oil

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Part of this material comes from a Doctoral Thesis completed at the University of Wisconsin under the direction of Dr. Paul Bass.

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Gaginella, T.S., Phillips, S.F. Ricinoleic acid: Current view of an ancient oil. Digest Dis Sci 20, 1171–1177 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01070759

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