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Figure 1: A rat lung cell attempting to ingest carbon nanotubes that are longer than the distance that the cell can stretch, which means that the rat cannot remove such nanotubes from the body.

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Stone, V., Donaldson, K. Signs of stress. Nature Nanotech 1, 23–24 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2006.69

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