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RECENT studies of pH effects in the radiolysis of aqueous solutions have demonstrated the existence of two types of reducing species in irradiated water. The indications are that these species correspond to the solvated electron, H2O−, and the H atom1,2. Hayon and Weiss have proposed that the marked pH dependence of hydrogen yields in the radiolysis of air-free solutions of organic compounds is consistent with : where (3) and hence (4) become less important at the higher pH values as competing reactions lead to removal of H2O through : or through capture by solute, for example:
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GARRISON, W., WEEKS, B. & COLE, S. pH Effects in the Radiolysis of Aquo-Organic Systems. Nature 193, 1291 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/1931291a0
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