The electrochemical behavior of the hydrolysis products of oxadiazon was studied by cyclic and square-wave voltammetry using a glassy carbon electrode. Maximum currents were obtained at pH 12.8 in an aqueous electrolyte solution containing 30 % ethanol and the current did not decrease with time showing that there was little adsorption of the reaction products on the electrode surface. The hydro...

A method for the determination of trace amounts of the herbicide oxadiazon was developed using headspace solid-phase microextraction (HS-SPME), gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) and selected ion monitoring. It was applied to determine oxadiazon in ground water, agricultural soil, must, wine and human urine samples. To determine oxadiazon in liquid samples, a response surface methodol...

The persistence of herbicides applied in vineyards has become a concern in recent years due to their wide use. Investigations into the fate of herbicides in a vineyard in the Barossa Valley, South Australia, have been directed towards the dissipation of herbicides in soil and on grapes. Concentrations of the herbicides, norflurazon, oxadiazon, and oxyfluorfen in soil were monitored following th...

Several preemergent herbicides were compared for control of the warm season annuals Phyllanthus urinaria and P. tenellus. Approximately 55 seeds per species were applied to each 3.8-liter container filled with a pine bark:Canadian sphagnum peat:sand medium (3:1:1, by vol.; initial pH = 5.6). The six treatments (including untreated pots), with four replications per treatment and three pots per r...

Background: The presence of pesticides is very prevalent in surface waters of Iran due to their huge consumption for agricultural purpose. These toxic substances may accumulate in the food chain and cause serious ecological and health problems. Chemical pesticides with persistent molecules (long half-life periods) pose a threat to aquatic life forms and the human population consuming the affe...

Interaction between herbicides and sediments in water systems is an important process occurring in water, which influences the behaviour of the herbicides in water. This paper reports on the sorption of herbicides norflurazon, oxadiazon and trifluralin on soil and the interaction between the herbicides and sediments under stirred and non-stirred conditions. The sorption coefficients of the herb...

background: the presence of pesticides is very prevalent in surface waters of iran due to their huge consumption for agricultural purpose. these toxic substances may accumulate in the food chain and cause serious ecological and health problems. chemical pesticides with persistent molecules (long half-life periods) pose a threat to aquatic life forms and the human population consuming the affect...