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> Within three minutes, some containers released as many as 4.22 million microplastics (particles smaller than 5 millimeters) Is this an error in the article?

by mvdtnz 3y ago

> Within three minutes, some containers released as many as 4.22 million microplastics (particles smaller than 5 millimeters) Is this an error in the article? I always assumed "microplastics" would be much too small to see. 5 millimeters is about half the size of a micro SD card.

lucb1e 3y ago
<Ctrl+T>!wi microplastic<Enter> is what it took to find https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microplastics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microplastics which says the same thing. I was as surprised as you are, though