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Insights to Visual and Analytical Techniques for Identification and Characterization of Marine Micro Plastic as a Major Source of Petroleum Hydrocarbon Pollutants
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This review examines visual and analytical techniques—including spectroscopy and microscopy—used to identify and characterize marine microplastics as carriers of petroleum hydrocarbon pollutants. Understanding these characterization methods is essential because microplastics act as vectors for toxic organic compounds, amplifying their ecological and human health risks beyond the particles themselves.
Marine microplastic pollution has become a major global environmental issue that is detrimental to the worldwide environment and ecology in the long term. Identifying and characterizing these microplastic pollutants are thus essential to fathom their potential...
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