Microplastic Abundance and Sources in Surface Water Samples of the Vaal River, South Africa

Technique: Raman

Applications: Environmental

Products: KnowItAll Raman Spectral Library, KnowItAll Software

This study investigates the level of microplastics (MPs) in the freshwater of the Vaal River, South Africa. MPs were chemically identified by comparison with reference spectra in the SLOPP Library of Microplastics and polymer databases of KnowItAll software as high-density polyethylene, low-density polyethylene, and polypropylene according to their Raman spectra.

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