40 CFR §716.50
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Studies of physical and chemical properties must be reported under this subpart if performed for the purpose of determining the environmental or biological fate of a substance, and only if they investigated one or more of the following properties:
- (a)Water solubility.
- (b)Adsorption/desorption on particulate surfaces, e.g., soil.
- (c)Vapor pressure.
- (d)Octanol/water partition coefficient.
- (e)Density/relative density (specific gravity).
- (f)Particle size distribution for insoluble solids.
- (g)Dissociation constant.
- (h)Degradation by photochemical mechanisms—aquatic and atmospheric.
- (i)Degradation by chemical mechanisms—hydrolytic, reductive, and oxidative.
- (j)Degradation by biological mechanisms—aerobic and anaerobic.