Environmental Engineering Reference
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Photoinduced and Microbial Degradation
of Dissolved Organic Matter in Natural Waters
Khan M. G. Mostofa, Cong-qiang Liu, Daisuke Minakata, Fengchang Wu,
Davide Vione, M. Abdul Mottaleb, Takahito Yoshioka and Hiroshi Sakugawa
1 Background
Solar radiation is a universal and regular phenomenon in biosphere that is vital
for all life in the Earth's crust. It maintains all the physical, chemical, photoin-
duced and biological processes of organic matter and dissolved organic matter
