Convenient new chemical actinometer based on aqueous acetone, 2-propanol, and carbon tetrachloride

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 2262-2266

  Li, Heng ^a   Betterton, Eric A ^b   Arnold, Robert G ^c   Ela, Wendell P ^c   Barbaris, Brian ^b   Grachane, Cecilio ^c  

^a The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLS; CALIBRATION; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; IRRADIATION; LIGHT SENSITIVE MATERIALS; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; PURIFICATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ACTINOMETER; LINEAR DECAY CURVES; PHOTOREDUCTION; QUANTUM YIELDS;

ACETONE;

2 PROPANOL; ACETONE; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; FERRIOXALATE; OXALIC ACID DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

MEASUREMENT METHOD; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; PURIFICATION; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; REDUCTION; SOLAR RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

2-PROPANOL; ACETONE; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; KINETICS; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 16844364776     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es050046y     Document Type: Article

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