Mercury electrodes-possibilities and limitations in environmental electroanalysis

Critical Reviews in Analytical Chemistry

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 173-188

  Vyskočil, Vlastimil ^a   Barek, Jiří ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Environmental analysis; Heterocyclic compounds; Mercury electrodes; Nitrated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; Pesticides; Polarography; Review; Voltammetry

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS; MERCURY ELECTRODES; NITRATED POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; POLAROGRAPHY;

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS; ELECTRODES; MERCURY (METAL); MERCURY COMPOUNDS; NITRATION; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PESTICIDES; POLAROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; SOLVENT EXTRACTION; VOLTAMMETRY;

AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS;

ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROKINESIS; EXTRACTION METHOD; HETEROCYCLIC OXYGEN COMPOUND; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MERCURY (ELEMENT); PAH; PESTICIDE;

EID: 70350056817     PISSN: 10408347     EISSN: 15476510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10408340903011820     Document Type: Article

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