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IT is customary to describe the state of affairs about 10<sup>â 8</sup> sec after the passage of a fast electron traversing a liquid aqueous medium by equation (1) : in which Gâ Hâ and GOH are the numbers of H atoms and OH radicals respectively which are available to react with solutes for each 100 eV energy deposited in the water. Recent work<sup>1,2</sup> has shown that the precursor of the hydrogen atom is a solvated electron, e<sup>â </sup>aq, capable of reaction in this form with solutes such as N2O<sup>3</sup>, ClCH2COOH<sup>4</sup>, O2<sup>2</sup>, H2O2<sup>2</sup>, etc. The solvated electron is also able to react with hydrogen ions according to equation (2), when it is converted into a hydrogen atom: |
