Hey guys. I hope this is the right category. I had a friends crop show up with this ethoprophos pesticide and I was curious if anyone is familiar with remediating this pesticide. I looked up the msds and it has a very low solubility in water so I’m thinking a LLE is a no go. Do you think a magsil scrub would help? I was planning on doing a small jar extraction on it and seeing what I could figure out, but if anyone has a direction for me I would really appreciate it.
Remediation isn’t really my thing but a jar sized project is hard for me to pass up.
Thanks!
Looking at the structure of the atom, the entire molecule has hydrogen surrounding it. Hydrogen is a polar molecule. So you’ll want to use a media that is hydrophillic and use a non polar solvent to do your elution. Magnesium Silicate with the right solvent could be a great solution.
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