“…Such spontaneous decarboxylation has however been shown to be very slow at relevant temperatures in pure water (Fairclough, 1938), lake water (Xiang et al, 2005) and spruce needles (Matucha et al, 2006), while at elevated temperature (>60°C), the decarboxylation is fast. Haselmann et al did find some indications that trichloromethane could be formed by degradation of trichloroacetic acid in forest soil (Haselmann et al, 2000b), but other authors (Forczek et al, 2001;Matucha et al, 2003) were not able to repeat this observation, and in general trichloroacetic acid formed in soil seems to be quickly mineralized to CO 2 and Cl -by microbial activity (Forczek et al, 2001;Matucha et al, 2003;Albers et al, 2010a).…”