Samples of microplastics (IMAGE)

Kyushu University

Samples of microplastics

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Microplastic samples collected from the oceans. Plastic fragments less than 5 mm in length are categorized as microplastics. The scale bar shows a length of 2000 µm or 2 mm.

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Kyushu University/Asahi Kasei Corporation

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