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Enhanced photodegradation of dimethoxybenzene isomers in/on ice compared to in aqueous solution
Ted Hullar
Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, University of
California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Theo Tran
Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, University of
California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Zekun Chen
Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, One
Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Fernanda Bononi
Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, One
Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Oliver Palmer
Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, University of
California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA
now at: TeraPore Technologies, 407 Cabot Road, South San Francisco,
CA 94080, USA
Davide Donadio
Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, One
Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, University of
California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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Chemicals are commonly found in snowpacks throughout the world and may be degraded by sunlight; some previous research has reported faster decay rates for chemicals on the surface of snow and ice compared to in water. We found photodegradation on snow can be as much as 30 times faster than in solution for the three dimethoxybenzene isomers. Our computational modeling found light absorbance by dimethoxybenzenes increases on the snow surface, but this only partially explains the decay rate.
Chemicals are commonly found in snowpacks throughout the world and may be degraded by sunlight;...
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