Spectrofluorimetric determination of formaldehyde by a flow-injection method based on its catalytic effect on the

T Pérez-Ruíz1, C Martínez-Lozano, V Tomás

  • 1Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Murcia, 30071 Murcia, Spain. tpr@um.es

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