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Measurement and Prediction of Picloram Disappearance Rates from Soil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

R. W. Meikle ,
C. R. Youngson ,
R. T. Hedlund ,
C. A. I. Goring ,
J. W. Hamaker  and
W. W. Addington
R. W. Meikle
Affiliation:
The Dow Chemical Company, Ag-Organics Research Laboratories, Walnut Creek, CA 94598
C. R. Youngson
Affiliation:
The Dow Chemical Company, Ag-Organics Research Laboratories, Walnut Creek, CA 94598
R. T. Hedlund
Affiliation:
The Dow Chemical Company, Ag-Organics Research Laboratories, Walnut Creek, CA 94598
C. A. I. Goring
Affiliation:
The Dow Chemical Company, Ag-Organics Research Laboratories, Walnut Creek, CA 94598
J. W. Hamaker
Affiliation:
The Dow Chemical Company, Ag-Organics Research Laboratories, Walnut Creek, CA 94598
W. W. Addington
Affiliation:
The Dow Chemical Company, Ag-Organics Research Laboratories, Walnut Creek, CA 94598
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Abstract

We have shown by means of laboratory experiments with a wide range of soil types that the decomposition rate of picloram (4-amino-3,5,6-trichloropicolinic acid) in soil is dependent on soil temperature and moisture content and to no significant extent on organic matter, sand, silt, clay, pH, or initial concentration. A fractional order rate law (0.8) describes the disappearance rate best. It was not possible to develop a suitably precise equation for prediction of loss rate as affected by the above soil and climatic factors. Application of the Arrhenius equation to the data indicates an activation energy of 5.4 kcal/mol for the decomposition of picloram in soil, thus suggesting that the reaction is biological rather than chemical.

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Research Article
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Weed Science , Volume 21 , Issue 6 , November 1973 , pp. 549 - 555
Copyright
Copyright © 1973 Weed Science Society of America 

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