• masterofn001
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    It has to leave a trace.

    Something must be a produced as the result of the chemical reaction. Maybe not ‘plastic’ but it cannot possibly be nothing.

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        Pico plastics!

        If you can’t see it without a electron microscope laser interferometer, it doesn’t exist!

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          Oh yay, the Trump method of solving problems. If you stop testing for it, or can’t see it then not an issue. I would think pico plastics will be worse then micro ones?

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            The picometre is one thousandth of a nanometre (⁠1/1000 nm), one millionth of a micrometre (also known as a micron)

            So, yeah.

            If something was that small there would be absolutely no way of filtering out or preventing it from getting in.

            But, that’s just an if.

            The article doesn’t say what the molecules are they used. So to speculate on the product of it’s decomposition is not really productive. But, the statement that it (impossibly) leaves no trace is absolutely false.