Movement and persistence of aldicarb in certain soils
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1432-0703
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Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
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Energy, Environment Protection, Nuclear Power Engineering
Medicine
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Abstract When the rate of movement and the persistence of aldicarb in 4 types of soils were investigated in laboratory and field studies some leaching was detected in coarse sand; however, leaching was quite limited in clay loam and muck soils. These data indicated that aldicarb degraded quite rapidly in the selected soils and most of the applied radioactivity volatilized from these soil columns as14CO2. The evolution of14CO2 from the treated soil suggested severe degradation of the aldicarb molecule and consequently provided indirect evidence against the accumulation of significant quantities of toxic metabolites in the soil types evaluated. Under field conditions this toxicant appeared to have a half-life of about 7 days in loam soil.
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Electronic Resource
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