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All black: a microplastic extraction combined with colour-based analysis allows identification and characterisation of tire wear particles (TWP) in soils

Microplastics and Nanoplastics 2024 8 citations ? Citation count from OpenAlex, updated daily. May differ slightly from the publisher's own count.
Alexandra Foetisch, Adrian Grunder, B.F.M. Kuster, Tobias Stalder, Moritz Bigalke

Summary

A color-based extraction method combined with aeration in saturated sodium chloride solution was validated as a reliable, rapid method to extract and identify black tire wear particles from soil samples using their distinctive color as a distinguishing feature.

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The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s43591-024-00102-9.

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