Flying Squid to Microblog MemesEnglish • 6 months agoFinally, a use for microplastics...imagemessage-square17arrow-up1608arrow-down110
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish11•6 months agoI’m gonna need someone smarter than me to translate this: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.0c07384 The median steady-state MP abundances in the gut are about 300 and 500 particles/capita for children and adults, respectively, which translate to mass abundances ranging from 7.98×10−4 to 1.59×10−3 μg/capita
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish17•6 months ago10^-3 ug or as they put it in the abstract: 40.7 (90% CI, 0.8–9.85 × 103) ng/capita for adults until age 70 in the body tissue Is basically nothing in terms of mass. For a 100g figure you would need the micro plastic of Billions of people (if I’m not mistaken). However, I’m not sure if they factored in j balls.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish16•6 months agoSo check my math here. The average Funko Pop is about 120g The average testicle is about 20g Per that article, the average testicle has 330 micrograms per gram of plastic, which means about 0.0066g per ball. You would need 18,182 balls - or the balls of 9,091 dudes - to make a Funko Pop
minus-squareBubbleMonkeylinkfedilinkEnglish5•6 months agoThat’s measuring in micrograms, which are millionths of grams, so it would have to be really really tiny.
I’m gonna need someone smarter than me to translate this: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.0c07384
10^-3 ug or as they put it in the abstract:
Is basically nothing in terms of mass.
For a 100g figure you would need the micro plastic of Billions of people (if I’m not mistaken).
However, I’m not sure if they factored in j balls.
So check my math here.
The average Funko Pop is about 120g
The average testicle is about 20g
Per that article, the average testicle has 330 micrograms per gram of plastic, which means about 0.0066g per ball.
You would need 18,182 balls - or the balls of 9,091 dudes - to make a Funko Pop
The J stands for “Just plastic”
That’s measuring in micrograms, which are millionths of grams, so it would have to be really really tiny.