A Procedure for Measuring Microplastics using Pressurized Fluid Extraction

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 5774-5780

  Fuller, Stephen ^a   Gautam, Anil ^a  

^a OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENT AND HERITAGE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLE; INDUSTRIAL AREA; MICROPLASTICS; MUNICIPAL WASTE; PRESSURIZED FLUID EXTRACTION; SOIL SAMPLE; SPIKE RECOVERY;

EXTRACTION;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; COMPOSTING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EXTRACTION METHOD; GLASS; INDUSTRIAL LOCATION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; PLASTIC; SAMPLING;

EXTRACTION; IDENTITY; INDUSTRIAL AREA; LIQUID; SOIL; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; WATER POLLUTANT;

PLASTIC; WATER POLLUTANT;

ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PLASTICS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84973661634     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.6b00816     Document Type: Article

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