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Chemistry: Breaking the billion-hertz barrier

Researchers in France have switched on the world's most powerful nuclear magnetic resonance instrument. Ananyo Bhattacharya asks whether it will attract new life to NMR spectroscopy.

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Bhattacharya, A. Chemistry: Breaking the billion-hertz barrier. Nature 463, 605–606 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/463605a

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