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Plastics and microplastics as a generating theme in the teaching of polymers under the prism of sustainability
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This is a brief academic note or abstract from a Brazilian educational research program examining how plastics and microplastics can serve as a teaching theme for polymer chemistry in the context of sustainability. It appears to be a thesis or project summary rather than a full primary research article.
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