AperTO - Archivio Istituzionale Open Access dell'Università di Torino Surface Water Photochemistry This is the author's manuscript Original Citation: Availability: This version is available http://hdl.handle.net/2318/1622297 since 2017-01-18T17:16:36Z Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry Terms of use: Open Access Anyone can freely access the full text of works made available as "Open Access". Works made available under a Creative Commons license can be used according to the terms and conditions of said license. Use of all other works requires consent of the right holder (author or publisher) if not exempted from copyright protection by the applicable law. (Article begins on next page) 08 October 2021 This is the author's final version of the contribution published as: Paola Calza; Davide Vione. Surface Water Photochemistry. Royal Society of Chemistry. 2016. pp: 1-297. When citing, please refer to the published version. Link to this full text: http://hdl.handle.net/2318/1622297 This full text was downloaded from iris - AperTO: https://iris.unito.it/ iris - AperTO University of Turin’s Institutional Research Information System and Open Access Institutional Repository Surface Water Photochemistry Chapter 1 Introduction Davide Vione* and Paola Calza Department of Chemistry University of Torino Via P. Giuria 5 10125 Torino Italy
[email protected] 1. Introduction In the following sections of this introductory chapter, some basic pieces of information are provided that will be useful for the understanding of the chapters that follow. 1.1. Basic principles of photophysics and environmental photochemistry 1,2 In the natural environment sunlight is the source of radiation ( λ > 280 nm) and, for photochemistry to be operational, one needs molecules that absorb radiation above 280 nm.