Abstract
Water radiolysis generates approximately equal numbers of highly reactive reducing (e -aq and H) and oxidising species (OH), thus providing chemists with a powerful tool for generating in aqueous solution a host of inorgainc and organic free redicals and unusual oxidation states of many metal ions.
This review focusses attention on two features of water radiolysis which are of major importance in its use as a chemical tool. The first is the yields of e -aq H and OH and how these yields depend on time, PH radiation quality(LET) and scavenger concentration. The second concerns the properties of the primary species and the ways in which these may be utilised to produced totally oxidising or reducing conditions.
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Buxton, G.V. (1982). Basic Radiation Chemistry of Liquid Water. In: Baxendale, J.H., Busi, F. (eds) The Study of Fast Processes and Transient Species by Electron Pulse Radiolysis. NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series, vol 86. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7852-2_15
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