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Letter to the Editor: Misclassification of fibres in Ramage et al. (2025) and implications for microplastics research
Kelly J Sheridan1, Richard S Blackburn2, Miranda T Prendergast-Miller3
1Department of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Health & Life Sciences, Northumbria University, Ellison Building, NE1 8ST, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK.
Chemosphere
|October 14, 2025
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