Yields of hydrogen peroxide in radiolysis of aqueous ethylene glycol solutions

The main source of information on mechanisms for the formation of H2O2 and other molecular water radiolysis products is the dependence of their yields on the concentration of a substance (S) dissolved in the water. A diffusion/recombination model for water radiolysis predicts that at low (≤0.1 mole/dm3) concentrations of S in water (C/sub S/) the yields of molecular water radiolysis products (G/sub M/), i.e., H2 and H2O2, drop linearly with the cube root of C/sub S/. This paper attempts to prove the assumption experimentally by studying how G/sub H2O2/, the ideal water breakdown yield, is affected by high concentrations of ethylene glycol in deaerated aqueous solutions. The observed radiolytic yield of H2O2 in this system agreed with the initial G/sub H2O2/