Current opinion: What is a nanoplastic?

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• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Environmental Pollution

• Publication date

  2018-04-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Materials Science, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/j.envpol.2018.01.024PMID 29370948
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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