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Microplastics Are Chemically Active and Could Cause Biological Harm, Columbia Study Finds
Columbia and UC Berkeley researchers find that as plastic fragments into micro- and nanoparticles, its expanding surface generates reactive oxygen species that may damage living tissue.
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