Electrooxidation of thiourea and its square-wave voltammetric determination using pencil graphite electrode

Reviews in Analytical Chemistry

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 45-51

  Levent, Abdulkadir ^a,b   Keskin, Ertuǧrul ^a   Yardim, Yavuz ^a   Şentürk, Zühre ^a  

^a YUZUNCU YIL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b BATMAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

cyclic voltammetry; pencil graphite electrode; square wave voltammetry; thiourea; wastewater

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954502593     PISSN: 07930135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/REVAC.2011.005     Document Type: Review

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