To what extent are microplastics from the open ocean weathered?

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  2017

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  Environmental Pollution

• Publication date

  2017-08-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/j.envpol.2017.04.051PMID 28460234
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