Inorganic species chemiluminescence

Chemiluminescence methods are known for their high sensitivities. Typical detection limits range from parts per million to parts per billion or lower. Applications include the determination of gases, such as oxides of nitrogen, ozone, and sulfur compounds, determination of inorganic species such as hydrogen peroxide and some metal ions, immunoassay techniques, DNA probe assays, and polymerase chain reacrion methods.- ... 

These particles are complex mixtures of organic and inorganic components that increase the level of oxidative species in the lung and the heart after inhalation [65]. The time course of organ oxidative stress was followed by in situ lung and heart chemiluminescence and the phenomenon seems to involve mitochondrial participation [66]. 

Measurement of the intensity of photoluminescence or chemiluminescence permits the quantitative determination of a variety of important inorganic and organic species in trace amounts. Currently, the number of fluorometric methods is far greater than the number of applications of phosphorescence and chemiluminescence procedures. 

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