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Original Article

Consumer exposures to laser printer-emitted engineered nanoparticles: A case study of life-cycle implications from nano-enabled products

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Pages 760-768 | Received 09 Jul 2014, Accepted 09 Oct 2014, Published online: 11 Nov 2014

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