1. Features and general presentation

1.1 History and outlook: from Heyrovsky to the present day

It was in 1922 that Heyrovsky, based on his work on the surface tension of mercury from a capillary tube, described a new analysis technique called polarography [1] . Appointed professor at Charles University in Prague, he was the founding father of a dynamic Czech school that developed this technique, and Heyrovsky was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1959 "for his discovery and development of polarographic methods of analysis". By then, polarographic techniques had become indispensable to the modern analyst.

The name "polarography" proposed by Heyrovsky alludes to the fundamental importance of the electromotive...

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Applications of polarographic techniques in analysis

Bibliography

(1) - HEYROVSKY (J.) - Electrolysis with a dropping mercury cathode. Part 1 : Deposition of alkali and alkaline earth metals (Électrolyse avec une cathode à goutte de mercure. Partie 1 : Déposition des métaux alcalins et alcalino-terreux). - Chem. Listy, 16, p. 256 (1922) ; Phil. Mag, 45, p. 303 (1923).
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Websites

Suppliers of equipment for the application of polarographic techniques
- With mercury drop electrode
  
  Metrohm http://www.metrohm.fr
  
  Radiometer-Analytical (now Hach Lange France SAS)

Manufacturers – Suppliers – Distributors

Various suppliers offer equipment for polarographic methods of analysis, either with dedicated equipment specifically for polarographic methods (table 1 ), or with modular systems comprising a stand for the mercury drop electrode combined with a potentiostat not specific...