Assessment of Environmental Effects of Ordnance Compounds and their Transformation Products in Coastal Ecosystems

摘要

This study was undertaken to help understand the fate and effects of two munitions and explosives of concern 2,6-dinitrotoluene (2,6-DNT) and 2,4,6- trinitrophenol (picric acid) in marine environments Specifically biotransformation and degradation in marine sediments and photo-transformation in seawater were assessed. Studies were conducted with sediments spiked in the laboratory with the two chemicals of concern for the biotransformation assessments and by spiking filtered seawater with these chemicals for the photo- transformation assessments.