Abstract
Abstract A high‐intensity short‐wavelength UV light system was studied for its ability to degrade the pesticides carbofuran, fenamiphos sulfoxide (nemacur sulfoxide), and propazine in aqueous solutions. Half‐lives, rate constants, and breakdown products were determined for all chemicals. The presence of hydrogen peroxide, an oxidant and potential source of hydroxyl radicals, had no effect on the rate of breakdown of any of the chemicals investigated. Short‐wavelength UV light appears to be solely responsible for the observed pesticide breakdown. The breakdown of all three pesticides followed first order kinetics. Carbofuran, nemacur sulfoxide, and propazine had half lives of 3.9, 1.1, and 3.9 minutes, respectively. Breakdown product analysis was performed using capillary gas chromatography/mass spectrometry.
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