“…The instrumental techniques which have been applied to the cerium determination include X-ray fluorescence [3], inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectrometry (ICP-AES) [4,5], graphite furnace-atomic absorption spectrometry (GF-AAS) [5], inductively coupled plasmamass spectrometry (ICP-MS) [6], chemiluminescence [7], fluorimetry [8], ion-selective electrodes [9 -11], spectrophotometry [12,13], and neutron activation analysis (NAA) [14]. Nevertheless, most of these techniques allow only the measurements of the total concentration and require costly and specialized instrumentation, which may not be available in many laboratories.…”