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Report of the sub-committee on the environment and health.

Table 4.19
Water solubility and adsorption constants (Kd) for atrazine and primary atrazine metabolites. Atrazine is banned in Denmark.
  Water sol. mM (a) Kd in soil with 14% organic matter (b) Kd in soil with 4 % organic matter (b) Kd in soil with 2,3 % organic matter (b) Kd in soil with 1,0 % organic matter (b)
Atrazine

0.15

14

2.6

1.5

0.44
Deethylatrazine

2.0

6.5

0.96

0.58

0.24
Desisopropylatrazine

1.2

8.6

1.2

0.73

0.41
Hydroxyatrazine

0.24

82

4.1

3.7

1.7

(a): Erickson, Lee 1989
(b): Brouwer et al. 1990

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