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The mechanism of the action of ionizing radiations on aqueous solutions at or near neutral pH-from the point of view of radiation biology, the most significant range-has been clarified only recently. The experimental results are best understood by assuming that after primary ionization H20 --m--+ H20 ++ e (1) in aqueous solution the electron is stabilized (1-3) by interaction with the dipolar dielectric solvent, e + aq -eaq (2) The solvated electron, eaq, thus formed reacts with suitable acceptors in the bulk (1-7): e, + S -Saq (3) A specific acceptor of interest is H+, (4), which, on reacting with eq, yields H atoms.
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