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Letter: For the record

Published 20 April 2016

• We should have stated that the plot showing migrations in 2010-2015 was based on provisional figures (9 April, p 29).

• The old phone rings to tell us that Bakelite, widely recognised as the first synthetic plastic, is in fact a copolymer of formaldehyde and phenol (12 March, p 36).

Issue no. 3070 published 23 April 2016

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