Plasticizers: A twenty-first-century miasma

Accumulation: The Material Politics of Plastic

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 134-149

  Liboiron, Max ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203070215     Document Type: Chapter

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