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Supporting information: Simple, efficient, and ultra-low-cost method for magnetic recovery of microplastics derived from spray paint
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Researchers provided supplementary materials for a method using magnetic recovery to capture spray-paint-derived microplastics simply and at ultra-low cost.
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