RECONCILIATION OF TRANSIENT ABSORPTION AND CHEMICALLY SCAVENGED YIELDS OF THE HYDRATED ELECTRON IN RADIOLYSIS

The lung-standing discrepancy between the kinetics of the hydrated ele ctron measured in pulse radiolysis experiments and the time dependent decay inferred from the inverse Laplace transform of scavenger data is resolved by the incorporation of all improved measurement of the rate coefficient for the CH3Cl + e(aq)(-) reaction used in the inverse Lap lace transform treatment. The revised analysis of both data types lead s to the conclusion that the spatial distribution of secondary electro ns produced in the energetic electron radiolysis of water is nearly tw ice as wide as suggested by previous studies.