Track effects in radiation chemistry. Concentration dependence for the scavenging of hydroxyl by ferrocyanide in nitrous oxide-saturated aqueous solutions

1981 ◽  
Vol 85 (2) ◽  
pp. 192-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert H. Schuler ◽  
Amy L. Hartzell ◽  
Bracha Behar

For carefully purified concentrated aqueous solutions of N 2 0, G (N 2 ) is initially greater than the steady state value of 3.0 and G (O 2 ) less than the steady state value of 1.45 when G (H 2 ) = G (H 2 O 2 ) = 0. For very dilute solutions G (N 2 ) is small, independent of dose rate and decreases with increasing dose and decreasing [N 2 O], while G (H 2 ) is initially > 0.45, independent of dose rate and decreases with dose. The high initial G (H 2 is not due to organic or other impurity and is thought to arise either from bimolecular reaction of e aq − . and H within a spur or track or from unimolecular decomposition of the solvated electron either to H 2 + O - or H + OH - or from a combination of both. The dose effects are attributed to competitive scavenging of e aq − . by H 2 O 2 as the latter is produced.


Biopolymers ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 132-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irina V. Nesmelova ◽  
Vladimir D. Skirda ◽  
Vladimir D. Fedotov

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