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Microplastics and Nanoplastics
Fig. 6 | Microplastics and Nanoplastics

Fig. 6

From: Investigating the correlation between morphological features of microplastics (5–500 µm) and their analytical recovery

Fig. 6

The diagrams plot average recovery of FMPs and SMPs combined, versus AR (left), and circularity (right). The total number of transferred particles within the specified ranges is marked by black triangles. Average recovery based on AR shows stability around the overall average recovery of 80% at AR < 3. Above this threshold the number of transferred particles becomes statistically insignificant and std. dev. increases significantly. RR of MPs of both high and low circularity showed reasonable stability around the overall average RR of 79%, yet at AR 0.6–0.7, standard deviation increased significantly. Note that high std. dev. coincides with low number of transferred particles

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