Radiochemically induced decompositions

Apart from the fluorides, halogen compounds are very sensitive to radiolysis and evidence suggests that the predominant primary process is one of rupture at the carbon-halogen With fluorides, carbon-carbon bond 

The work on halogen compounds has been summarised by Swallow and by Spinks and Woods . Reference should also be made to the Annual Reviews of Physical Chemistry, and, for a discussion of the basic processes in the gas phase, to the text by Lind . Dainton has recently discussed the important early stages in the radiolysis of solid and liquid systems. 

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