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Recently, the fugacity concept has been introduced and used to model the fate of chemicals which may be accidentally or deliberately released into the environment [1–3]. Its application to environmental fate determinations of toxic substances results in simplified equations for partitioning, transport, and reaction processes and their assembly into a coherent model. Expressing the distribution of contaminants in the environment in terms of fugacity rather than concentration facilitates interpretation of the dynamic processes to which the substances are subject.
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Paterson, S., Mackay, D. (1985). The Fugacity Concept in Environmental Modelling. In: Reactions and Processes. The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, vol 2 / 2C. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39048-0_4
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