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A review of analytical techniques for quantifying microplastics in sediments
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This review evaluated the wide range of analytical techniques currently used to measure microplastics in sediment samples, including visual sorting, FT-IR, and Raman spectroscopy. The authors highlight the lack of standardization across studies as a major barrier to comparing results and propose criteria for method selection.
In this review the analytical techniques for measuring microplastics in sediment have been evaluated.
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