“…Boutilier et al (48) studied the effect of silver and iodide ions on the phosphorescence of nucleosides and found silver ion to improve detection limits 20-to 50-fold. Other metal ions (Cd(II), Hg(II), Zn(II), and Cu(II)) have been studied as heavy atom perturbers (49,50) at 77 K and Ag(I) and T1(I) at room temperature on filter paper (51)(52)(53). EXPERIMENTAL Instrumentation.…”