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Queen's University Researchers Discover Common Nanoparticles are Highly Toxic to Arctic Ecosystem

Caption: Queen's University researchers Niraj Kumar and Virginia Walker next to the equipment they used to measure the respiration of microbe communities living in Arctic soil samples. Measuring this respiration rate allowed them to determine the toxic effect of silver nanoparticles to the microbe communities living in the soil.

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