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Illustration of light shining through a plastic bottle with a magnified view showing various plastic particles of different sizes and shapes.
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Using lasers, scientists were able to detect hundreds of thousands of previously invisible tiny plastic particles in bottled water.
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Naixin Qian, Columbia University
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Illustration of light shining through a plastic bottle with a magnified view showing various plastic particles of different sizes and shapes.
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Illustration of light shining through a plastic bottle with a magnified view showing various plastic particles of different sizes and shapes.