“…It is generally known that the fluorescence of certain heterocyclic indicators such as those based on quinine (Verity andBigger 1996, Mayrhofer andBetts 1998), 6methoxyquinoline (Urbano et al 1984, Krapf et al 1988, Geddes et al 1999a, b, 2001a, b, Jiwan and Soumillion 1997), anthracene (Mac et al 1991, Zhang et al 1997, naphthalenes Mishra 1993, Behera et al 1995a, b), coumarins (Moriya 1984(Moriya , 1986(Moriya , 1988, fluorescein (Naim et al 1986), pyrene (Castano et al 1983, Deumie et al 1995, rhodamines (Geddes andDouglas 2000, Geddes 2000a) and various other polynuclear/heterocyclic aromatics (Davis 1973, Najbar and Mac 1991, Momin and Narayanaswamy 1992, Sarpal and Dogra 1994, Carrigan et al 1996 are quenched by halides and some pseudohalides. The resulting decrease in fluorescence emission intensity or lifetime can be measured and related directly to the halide concentration via different quenching models that the author will describe.…”