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Letter: Putting microplastics in proper proportion (2)

Published 8 January 2020

From Peter Urben, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, UK

Lawton mentions plastic particles smaller than a nanometre. As atomic diameters are about a tenth of a nanometre, a sub-nanometre lump should surely be a small molecule, not a polymer.

Issue no. 3264 published 11 January 2020

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