Very little is known about the fate of methylacrylonitrile in soil. It has a relatively high vapor pressure of 71.2 mm Hg at 25 deg C which indicates that evaporation from terrestrial surfaces is likely to occur. Insufficient data are available to predict the importance of abiotic or microbial degradation in soil. Volatilization of methylacrylonitrile is expected to be an important fate process in water. Aquatic bioconcentration and adsorption to sediment are not expected to be important.
Insufficient data are available to predict the importance of microbial degradation in water.
Physical removal via wet deposition is possible. Methylacrylonitrile was qualitatively detected in only 1 surface water sample collected from 204 sites near heavily industrialized areas across the US .