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Another radical question: oxidation limited by radicals
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[QUOTE="rwooduk, post: 6048346, member: 493651"] Hmm, apologies if I was unclear. I'll use an analogy, which could potentially make things even more convoluted but here goes... [I]Imagine a small child was attacking a large group of men who are held in some type of defensive formation. 1 child would not cause any effect, nor would 2 children. However 100 children attacking the group of men would cause them to start to break apart, and once they start to break apart a further increase in children attacking them would cause them to break apart much more readily as the initial '[B][U]threshold[/U][/B]' to breakage has been broken.[/I] Is there a similar effect for radicals whereby a certain number are initially required to break apart the pollutant, and once that initial breakdown has occurred degradation occurs much more quickly with increase in the number of radicals (see graph in OP). I noticed the reverse effect while trying to degrade phenol, if the concentration was too high no degradation occurred, at lower concentrations I was able to see some degradation. It's although the radicals weren't able to break the phenol unless the concentration was reduced significantly. But yes, re-reading the question none of this makes sense really, apologies (!). [/QUOTE]
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