Analytical applications of solid and paste amalgam electrodes

Critical Reviews in Analytical Chemistry

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 189-203

  Yosypchuk, Bogdan ^a   Barek, Jiří ^b  

^a J HEYROVSKÝ INSTITUTE OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Amperometric amalgam detector; Paste amalgam electrode; Potentiometry; Reference amalgam electrode; Solid amalgam electrode; Voltammetry

Indexed keywords

AMALGAM ELECTRODES; AMPEROMETRIC; AMPEROMETRIC AMALGAM DETECTOR; ANALYTICAL APPLICATIONS; MERCURY ELECTRODES; ORGANIC ANALYTES; PASTE AMALGAM ELECTRODE; POTENTIOMETRY; PRE-TREATMENT; REFERENCE AMALGAM ELECTRODE; REFERENCE ELECTRODES; STRIPPING VOLTAMMETRY; VOLTAMMETRIC;

ELECTRODES; MERCURY (METAL); POTENTIOMETERS (ELECTRIC MEASURING INSTRUMENTS); STRIPPING (DYES); VOLTAMMETRY;

MERCURY AMALGAMS;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; DETECTION METHOD; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROKINESIS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MERCURY (ELEMENT);

EID: 70350054589     PISSN: 10408347     EISSN: 15476510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10408340903011838     Document Type: Article

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