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In the atmosphere cresol isomers are degraded by reaction with OH radicals. The trospospheric half-life of the cresols is about 3.8 to 9 hours. In water cresols are photolytically degraded with half-lives of 11 to 21 days, but they are not expected to hydrolyse.