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The missing small microplastics: easily generated from weathered plastic pieces in labs but hardly detected in natural environments

Fangni Du, Huiwen Cai, Lei Su, Wei Wang, Liwu Zhang, Chengjun Sun, Beizhan Yan, Huahong Shi

Environmental Science Advances · 2023 · 17 citations · 34 references

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Plentiful small microplastics and nanoplastics can easily generate from weathered plastics, but few small microplastics and no nanoplatics could be detected in surrounding sediments, possibly due to a lack of suitable detection approach.

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