Pollution: Do microplastics spill on to farm soils?

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• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  2016-09-21

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1038/537488bPMID 27652556
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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