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This investigation presents an analysis of the mobility of 37 organic solvents in saturated soil-water systems, focusing on adsorption phenomena at the solid-liquid interface This analysis was made, in part, by applying predictive expressions that estimate the potential magnitude of adsorption by soil materials Of the 37 solvents considered, 19 were classified as either “very highly mobile” or “highly mobile” and, thus, would have little tendency to be retained by soils to a significant extent, 12 were considered to have medium mobility and 6 low mobility None of these solvents were in the immobile class The limited information available indicates that these predictive expressions yield satisfactory first approximations of the magnitude of adsorption of these solvents by soil materials
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Roy, W.R., Griffin, R.A. Mobility of organic solvents in water-saturated soil materials. Environ. Geol. Water Sci 7, 241–247 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02509925
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