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http://www.physorg.com/news3158.html
New research from Rice University's Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology finds that nanoparticles of gold and palladium are the most effective catalysts yet identified for remediation of one of the nation's most pervasive and troublesome groundwater pollutants, trichloroethene or TCE.
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Don't get me started. Trichloroethylene (TCE) is a chlorinated hydrocarbon volatile organic compound (VOC). It is heavy enough to penetrate the subsurface soil in the liquid phase. it is very volatile and tends to volatilize into the vapor phase, which moves quickly laterally and vertically in the soil vapor, the void space between the particulates. It's a carcinogen and a heavily used solvent/degreaser. It's also a breakdown compound of percholerethylene (PCE), which is the smell that you smell on your clothes when you pick them up from the dry cleaner.
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