Mercury biomedical applications

Nowadays, many organic materials used in pharmaceuticals, dyes, or pesticides have become hazardous wide spread pollutants in the effluent. These organic species which exhibit electrochemical activities can be determined by mercury electrodes, especially trace amounts of organic compounds in pharmaceutical and biomedical applications. High sensitivity is easily achieved by employing adsorptive accumulation as the preconcentration step in the stripping technique. The determinations of common organic compounds are summarized in Table 3. 

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