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  "textContent": "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 \n\nThe post Lab gloves shed particles that fool microplastic detectors, inflating counts by 20x appeared first on Boing Boing.",
  "title": "Lab gloves shed particles that fool microplastic detectors, inflating counts by 20x"
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