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UV photoreduction of aqueous nitrite in heptane suspensions

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Ultraviolet photolysis of aqueous nitrite solutions in contact with a paraffin hydrocarbon causes a reduction of nitrite, by abstracted hydrogen atoms, to occur. This is evidenced by the formation of ammonium whose concentration is found to follow a simple, overall, kinetic pattern.

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  1. Laboratorio Nucleazione Aerosoli, CNR, Via Vettore 4, 00141, Monte Sacro, Roma, Italy

    Gianna L. Petriconi & Henry M. Papee

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Petriconi, G.L., Papee, H.M. UV photoreduction of aqueous nitrite in heptane suspensions. Water Air Soil Pollut 5, 403–406 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00280841

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