The work at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory was performed under the auspices of the US Department of Energy under Contract W-7405-Eng-48. The group at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory would like to express thanks to Gerald Goldstein of the Office of Health and Environmental Research for supporting their work under Contract No. RPIS-003906. The work at Tufts University was supported by the Environmental Protection Agency through the Tufts Center for Environmental Management.
Voltammetric methods are among the most sensitive and versatile available to the analytical chemist. They can identify and quantify substances from simple metal ions, through to complex organic molecules. The concentration range spans 9 orders of magnitude and, in many cases, trace level analyses of surface waters and body fluids can be performed with little or no pre-treatment of the sample is required.
In this text the basic concepts and principles are presented in an easy-to-read manner. Practical aspects are discussed and an overview of the electrochemistry of the elements and of organic functional groups is interspersed with 27 tested applications described in detail.
The techniques covered expand its application out into other disciplines apart from chemistry, such as botany, zoology and soil science.
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