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The phytodegradation of organic compounds can take place inside the plant or within the rhizosphere of the plant. Many different compounds and classes of compounds can be removed from the environment by this method, including solvents in groundwater, petroleum and aromatic compounds in soils, and volatile compounds in the air. Although still a relatively new area of research, there are many lab...

Breath Research Institute of the University of Innsbruck, Rathausplatz 4, A-­‐6850 Dornbirn, Austria Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences, Hochschulstr. 1, A-­‐6850 Dornbirn, Austria Faculty of Mathematics, University of Vienna, Oskar-­‐Morgenstern-­‐Platz 1, 1090 Wien, Austria Univ.-­‐Clinic for Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Innsbruck Medical University, Anichstr, 35, A-­‐6020 Innsbruck,...

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As diverse environmental changes continue to influence the structure and function of plant-pollinator interactions across spatial and temporal scales, we will need to enlist numerous approaches to understand these changes. Quantitative examination of floral volatile organic compounds (VOCs) is one approach that is gaining popularity, and recent work suggests that floral VOCs hold substantial pr...

. There is little doubt that the bulk of the organic matter in meteorites is indigenous, judging from isotopic measurements on C, H, and S (20, 21). Such proof is not available for individual compounds, however, and it is therefore necessary to resort to less direct arguments to rule out terrestrial contamination. We shall briefly review the most reliably established features of organic matter ...

CONTENTS Introduction Ultraviolet and Visible Spectroscopy Nature of Electronic Transitions Principles of Absorption Spectroscopy Spectral Measurements Solvent Effects Applications of Electron Spectroscopy Commercial Applications of UV and Visible Spectroscopy Infrared Absorption Spectroscopy Hooke’s law and Absorption of Radiations Modes of Molecular Vibrations Other Factors influencing Vibrat...