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Supplementary data to: Nanoplastic Detection and Quantification in High-Altitude Glacial Snow Samles from Italy, Switzerland and France

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Researchers release the complete supplementary dataset — processed spectral data, upscaling calculations, polymer library files, and analysis code — for a nanoplastic detection and quantification study conducted on high-altitude glacial snow samples collected from Italy, Switzerland, and France.

This is the repository of all supplementary data corresponding to our manuscript, and it contains the following files: Processed data files for all measurement days (.xlsx files) Final data analysis file (.xlsx file) including: raw fingerprinting results upscaling calculations spiking calculations final data + sdev Data processing code (.ipynb files) Polymer library files (.csv files) Fingerprinting code (.py files) Raw mass spectra files will be made available upon request.

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