According to a study published in Water Research in April 2020, superoxide produces hydroxyl radicals in lake water. Hydroxyl radicals break down poorly biodegradable organic matter such as humic ...

Scott F. Singleton, an associate professor of medicinal chemistry and natural products at the University of North Carolina School of Pharmacy, calls the results "wonderfully unexpected, but in a way ...

Haze is formed when a cocktail of various gaseous pollutants is oxidized and forms particulate matter diffusing sunlight. This process is mainly mediated by hydroxyl radicals (OH), and researchers ...

The atmospheric chemistry of hydroxyl radicals and gas‐phase reactions is central to our understanding of air quality and climate dynamics. Hydroxyl radicals (•OH), often described as the “atmospheric ...

The reactive hydroxyl radical, which helps sop up pollutant molecules in Earth’s atmosphere, has now also been found in the hellish atmosphere of Venus. The discovery promises to help scientists ...

Air quality is literally a matter of life and death. More than one in 10 deaths worldwide are attributed to dirty air, polluted through a matter of means and molecules, which makes the battle to clean ...

Equations describing the yield of scavenging reactions of the hydroxyl radical and of the hydrated electron in aqueous solutions of biological interest are presented. These equations are shown to be ...

A research team has developed a rapid flash-heating technology that produces highly efficient iron–carbon (Fe/C) composite catalysts capable of activating molecular oxygen to degrade stubborn organic ...

The human body's exposure to ozone in indoor spaces generates highly reactive hydroxyl (OH), radicals which are largely responsible for the oxidation of most pollutant gases, researchers report. The ...

Scientists have found that lightning bolts and, surprisingly, subvisible discharges that cannot be seen by cameras or the naked eye produce extreme amounts of the hydroxyl radical and hydroperoxyl ...

Hydrogen-based technologies are becoming more of a topic as renewable and clean energy sources are desired. A controversial take in this world is that hydrogen binding energy might not be the first ...