Lab gloves shed particles that fool microplastic detectors, inflating counts by 20x

Standard nitrile and latex lab gloves shed hydrocarbons called stearates — particles added by manufacturers to keep gloves from sticking to molds — that look nearly identical to polyethylene microplastics under electron microscopes and fool spectroscopy equipment too, according to Nautilus. — Read the rest The post Lab gloves shed particles that fool microplastic detectors, inflating counts by 20x appeared first on Boing Boing.