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Letter: For the record – 4 January 2020

Published 1 January 2020

• Our histogram shows the sources of microplastics that enter the sea in that form, not including the 70 to 85 per cent that enter as litter (7 December 2019, p 38).

• The motor in an electric car is an example of a moving magnet giving rise to an electric field only when it becomes a generator for the purposes of regenerative braking (30 November 2019, p 42).

Issue no. 3263 published 4 January 2020

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