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          <rev user="LasseJohansson" timestamp="2017-07-31T17:51:07Z" comment="" xml:space="preserve">'''IET Alternative Research Wiki'''

Welcome to to the IET Alternative Research Wiki. Its goal is to act as an entry point to Alternative Research on Water. 

It will list and explain focus areas, notions, keywords and show status of the existing knowledge on devices &amp; phenomena within Alternative Research on Water.</rev>
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