“…[6][7][8] The emphasis of ion chromatographic application of inorganic anions/cations determination is mostly on the following areas: environmental analysis, power plant chemistry, semiconductor industry, metal processing, pharmaceutics, biotechnology, mining, agriculture, food and beverages, electroplating, and the pulp and paper industry. [31][32][33][34][35][45][46][47][48][49][50][51] In spite of the strong competition from atomic spectrometric techniques, the IC of metal cations is now well established as a relatively cheap method with ease of automation and on-line capability; it is particularly attractive in a wide variety of routine trace analysis. 23,24,26,27,32,33 Compared with the traditional spectroscopic methods, IC offers the advantage of providing information on metal speciation, which can distinguish different metal oxidation states such as Cr(III)/Cr(VI), Fe(II)/ Fe(III), or As(III)/As(V).…”