Response to Comments on 'Degradability of an Acrylate-Unked, Fluorotelomer Polymer in Soil'

摘要

We thank Russell et al. (1) (hereafter "Russell") for their careful comments (see preceding pages) on our paper (2). We address their comments below, however, in all this detail, we emphasize that it is important not to lose track of several overarching issues that we address here and in Supporting Information (SI):rn(1) We observed an excess of reaction products in our experiment, including sec-alcohols (SI), that cannot be explained without invoking degradation proceeding with half-lives for commercial acrylate-linked fluorotelomer polymers (AFTPs) on the scale of years, assuming AFTP-particle interiors do not participate in degradation (SI).