The article intends to make a study of the biodegradability and its correlation with its quantitative structure of the alkyl xanthates flotation collectors in hoping to learn to control and prevent the pollution of the agents as well as to provide a theory for the synthesis and application of the flotation agents.It is for the said purpose,we have chosen five kinds of alkyl xanthates flotation collectors as research goal with the method of shaking the cultivated solution of the aerobic biodegradability of ethyl xanthate,the isopropyl xanthate,n...