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Environmental fate & pathways

Phototransformation in water

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Administrative data

Endpoint:
phototransformation in water
Type of information:
migrated information: read-across from supporting substance (structural analogue or surrogate)
Adequacy of study:
supporting study

Data source

Reference
Reference Type:
publication
Title:
No information
Author:
Svenson et al.
Year:
1989
Bibliographic source:
Chemosphere 18, 1805-1808

Materials and methods

Test material

Constituent 1
Reference substance name:
Fe(III)EDTA
IUPAC Name:
Fe(III)EDTA

Study design

Light source:
sunlight

Results and discussion

Dissipation half-life of parent compound
DT50:
11 min
Test condition:
Top millimeters of a water body in Stockholm at noon in the beginning of summer (the yearly maximum spectrum)
Details on results:
Quantum yield estimated to <0.1 (pH 8-9)

Applicant's summary and conclusion

Executive summary:

In a laboratory test with Fe(III)EDTA, the quantum yield was estimated to < 0.1 (pH 8-9). From this, a half-life of 11 minutes was calculated. This value refers to the top millimeters of a waterbody at noon in the beginning of summer (the yearly maximum spectrum). Because of factors like the daily periodicy of incident light, weather conditions like cloudiness, shadowing of surface and shore vegetation, adsorption and scattering by suspended solids, dissolved organic compounds and planctonic organisms, the real environmental half-life is certainly longer.