“…Therefore, a demand for monitoring these hydrides has been increasing. So far, atomic absorption spectrometry, inductively coupled plasma emission spectrometry (1), flame photometric detector coupled with gas chromatography (2), and chemiluminescence spectrometry with ozone oxidation (3) have been used for their determination. However, since each of these methods requires an expensive instrument, an explosive gas, or a poisonous gas, they do not appear to be suitable for the monitoring system.…”