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Selected Research Findings: Transformations and Reactions

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Both inorganic and organic contaminants may change their specific properties in the subsurface solution (e.g., toxicity, transport, adsorption, persistence) according to the properties of the aqueous medium. The pH of the subsurface solution, for example, may control basic or acid hydrolysis of contaminants, affect their dissolution–precipitation behavior, or influence their transformation under redox-induced processes. Inorganic and organic chemicals present in the subsurface solution may serve as catalysts, and at specific pH values, they can enhance contaminant transformation. Natural and synthetic organic compounds that serve as ligands for inorganic compounds lead to changes in contaminant dissolution in water and, in some cases, serve as sensitizers in photochemically induced degradation of organic pollutants in contaminated surface waters.

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    Brian Berkowitz, Ishai Dror & Bruno Yaron

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Berkowitz, B., Dror, I., Yaron, B. (2014). Selected Research Findings: Transformations and Reactions. In: Contaminant Geochemistry. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54777-5_16

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