Superficial or Substantial: Why Care about Microplastics in the Anthropocene?

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• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Environmental Science and Technology

• Publication date

  2018-03-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1021/acs.est.8b00790PMID 29494144
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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