Lecture 16 - Abiotic Transformation in the Environment
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Learning Objectives
- Understand the role of solar photons as an energy source for chemical reactions in the environment.
- Describe, in general, the dynamics of excited states in producing products and photo-sensitized reactants.
- Understand the major abiotic chemical reaction pathways in the environment.
- Describe electrophillic, nucleophillic, hydrolysis and redox reactions.
- Summarize the basic reactions associated with the formation of the hole in the ozone layer.
- Summarize the reactions associated with the formation of acid rock drainage.