“…Due to its nutritional and toxicological importance, cobalt is necessary to assay in real samples, such as pharmaceutics, food products, biological fluids, and natural waters (22)(23)(24). Several instrumental techniques have been developed to determine the trace amounts of cobalt, such as flame atomic absorption spectrometry (25)(26)(27)(28)(29)(30), inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (31), inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (32), highperformance liquid chromatography (33), and graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometry (34)(35)(36). However, these techniques are sophisticated and expensive.…”