When calcium hydroxide is used to desensitize glycerol trinitrate (nitroglycerine)-containing waste streams, the epoxides glycidol and glycidyl nitrate are formed. The epoxide rings of both compounds are unstable to heat in aqueous solutions, and they open to form glycerol 1-mononitrate and presumably glycerol. These transformations were accelerated by microbial activity. Glycerol 1-mononitrate was slowly denitrated to form glycerol. Glycidol and glycidyl nitrate caused base-pair substitutions in the Ames test for mutagenicity, whereas glycerol 1-mononitrate tests were negative.
Miguel Rosales‐Guzmán, Odilia Pérez‐Camacho, José R. Torres‐Lubián, Simon Harrisson, Ulrich Sigmar Schubert, Carlos Guerrero‐Sánchez, Enrique Saldívar‐Guerra
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