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. 2020 Jan 17;54(4):2353–2359. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.9b07540

Table 1. Concentrations of the Different Types of Micro/Nanoplastics Observed in the Surface Snow and Snowpit Samplesa.

  melted snow
filtered snow (0.2 μm)
sample match score quantity [ng/mL] match score quantity [ng/mL]
snowpit 2017, depth of 2.6 m PET 61.5 7.0      
PPC 64.4 16.5      
snowpit 2017, depth of 2.8 m PET 65.8 ± 3.1 22.9 ± 13.9 PET 65.6 ± 7.7 18.5 ± 1.5
snowpit 2017, depth of 3.0 m PET 78.2 ± 14.2 5.6 ± 0.9      
PPC 60.9 ± 2.4 10.8 ± 4.1      
PVC 62.6 ± 5.4 6.9 ± 0.2      
surface snow 2017-03-20 n/a   n/a PET 81.4 ± 7.1 4.6 ± 0.9
surface snow 2017-03-23 n/a   n/a PET 60.4 ± 9.7 18.5 ± 2.2
surface snow 2017-03-26 n/a   n/a PET? 57.1 ± 1.5 23.6 ± 3.0
surface snow 2017-03-29 n/a   n/a PET 70.0 ± 1.7 12.1 ± 2.3
surface snow 2017-04-01 n/a   n/a PET 62.7 ± 2.5 13.8 ± 2.3
a

Not corrected with an underestimation factor of ∼6.7 (see Materials and Methods). Errors represent standard deviation over the triplicate of all filtered samples and duplicates for melted snow samples, except the pit sample 2.6 M (single run). All the match scores can be found in the Supporting Information.