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Pectinidology (SCALLOPS) with Samantha Lynch

Ologies with Alie Ward

The Impact of Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles on Reef Building Coral

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Titanium dioxide nanoparticles look one way when they're manufactured but when they're exposed to uv light like sunlight they change a little bit. A lot of that early testing was done with kind of like pristine titanium dioxide nanoparticles and and they failed to acknowledge and evaluate what happens with the altered particle post-UV exposure. zinc oxide is the safer and better choice because it blocks harmful radiation better and it causes less ecological impact but titanium dioxide is cheaper so it persists.

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