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Experimental determination of settling and rising velocities of microplastics in freshwater - Raw Data
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This dataset provides raw measurements of the settling and rising velocities of various microplastic particle types in freshwater under laboratory conditions. Settling velocity data are essential inputs for modeling how microplastics distribute between the water column and sediment in rivers and lakes.
Tests were carried out on the sinking and rising velocities of microplastic particles and these are the raw data of the tests. The raw data were evaluated for the paper "Effects of Particle Properties on the Settling and Rise Velocities of Microplastics in Freshwater under Laboratory Conditions" (DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.8b06794).
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