%0 Journal Article %T Remo£¿£¿o de cor em solu£¿£¿es de corantes reativos por oxida£¿£¿o com H2O2/UV %A Araujo %A Fabiana Val¨¦ria da Fonseca %A Yokoyama %A L¨ªdia %A Teixeira %A Luiz Alberto C¨¦sar %J Qu¨ªmica Nova %D 2006 %I Sociedade Brasileira de Qu¨ªmica %R 10.1590/S0100-40422006000100003 %X this paper summarizes the result of a degradation test of two azo-reactive dyes (reactive blue 214, reactive red 243) under uv irradiation in the presence of h2o2. five different doses of hydrogen peroxide (0 mm, 5 mm, 10 mm, 20 mm and 30 mm) at constant initial concentration of the substrate (100 mg/l) were used. the radiation source were three 15 w-lamps. complete destruction of the color of the solutions was attained in 40-50 min of irradiation. uv/h2o2 proved capable of complete discoloration and degradation of the above azo reactive dyes. %K reactive dyes %K hydrogen peroxide %K uv radiation. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0100-40422006000100003&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en