If these aren’t microplastics, what are? “Micro” just means “small” in this case and doesn’t mean “microscopic” or have anything to do with “micrometer”. The definition of “microplastic” is " Microplastics are small plastic pieces less than five millimeters long" according to NOAA.
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Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
It’s not what microplasitcs are! Does anyone knows what micro is at this point?
Vorticity@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
The problem with that, is that if you include everything “small” in the definition, the word loses all it’s meaning, feeble as it is already.
The word microplastic was introduced to describe not just any small piece of trash, but specifically that very small, invisible, pieces of plastics that are, as it turned out, everywhere, in the air, in the water, in our food, in our blood, even in space. If you add just small pieces of rubbish to it, we remove all the sense from the word, and will need another one.
Heikki2@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
1x10^-6 m.
MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
a micron in size?
TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
-Wikipedia
hakobo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
To add to this, the definition of microplastic is less than 5mm. So yes, 1mm microbeads are microplastics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microplastics
Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
discuss.tchncs.de/comment/19641123
LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Millibeads
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Centibeads🐛