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Microplastics in Drinking Water

Original title: Mikroműanyag az ivóvízben

Egészségtudomány 2020 1 citation

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This appears to be a Hungarian-language article on microplastics in drinking water. The available content includes only the beginning of the title translated as microplastics and no substantive abstract text, making it impossible to fully summarize the research.

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