Decomposition biochemical

As a result of dissolution of the limestone by the partly neutralized acid wastes, calcium concentrations more than doubled in the near-deep monitoring well 10 months after injection started in 1963,67 In early 1966, however, they dropped to background levels (about 200 mg/L), possibly in response to biochemical decomposition of the waste. In September 1968, after about 300 million gallons of the acidic, unneutralized waste had been injected, the calcium concentration began to increase again. An abrupt increase in calcium to 2700 mg/L accompanied by a decrease in pH to 4.75 in January 1969 led to the decision to plug the near-deep monitoring well. 

Grandy, A. S., and Neff, J. C. (2008). Molecular C dynamics downstream The biochemical decomposition sequence and its impact on soil organic matter structure and function. Sci. Total Environ. 404(2/3), 297-303. 

Antipov-Karatayev, I.N., Tsyurupa, I.G. and Alferova, V., 1966. Regularities in the biochemical decomposition of albite and muscotive (in Russian). Kora Vyvetrivaniya Akad. Nauk SSSR, Inst. Geol. Rudn. Mestorozhdenii, Petrogr. Mineral. Geokhim., 7 53-88. 

Simple cyanides and some less stable complex cyanides undergo, in water, chemical and biochemical decomposition processes, hydrolysis and oxidation. The decomposition is stimulated by free CO2 in water ... 

Digestion Biochemical decomposition of organic materials to obtain different, less polluting, organic compounds. 

There are several alternative processes available for the regeneration of spent adsorbents I) desorption by inert stream or low pressure stream, 2) desorption at high temperature where adsorption isotherm is considerably advantageous for desorption, 3) desorption by changing affinity between adsorbate and adsorbent by chemical reagent, 4) desorption by extracting adsorbates by strong solvents, and 5) removal of adsorbates by thermal decomposition or biochemical decomposition. 

Xonogai, Y Iwaida, M. Xati, M. Ose, Y Sato, X. Biochemical decomposition of coal-tar dyes. II. Acute toxicity of coal-tar dyes and their decomposed products. J. Toxicol. Sci. 1978, 3, 205-214. 

The majority of biochemical decompositions are oxidative in natime, and the tendency for a reactant to undergo oxidation or reduction can be measured in terms of a potential. Every oxidation involves a corresponding reduction of some other reactant, and may be regarded as an interaction between an oxygen donator and an oxygen acceptor, owing to difference in oxidation-reduction potential. 

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