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Accelerated Oxidative Aging of Microplastics and its Effect on Copper Sorption Behavior
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Researchers provided raw figure data from experiments investigating how accelerated oxidative aging alters the surface chemistry of microplastics and consequently changes their capacity to sorb copper, a dataset supporting assessment of aged-plastic behavior in metal-contaminated environments.
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