QuantiChrom™ Cobalt Assay Kit

Direct assays: Cobalt in aqueous samples.

• Sensitive and accurate
• Linear detection range 1.4 μM to 200 μM cobalt in 96-well plate assay
• Simple and high-throughput
• The procedure involves addition of a single working reagent with immediate color development
• Can be readily automated as a high-throughput assay for thousands of samples per day
• Improved reagent stability and versatility. The optimized formulation has greatly enhanced reagent stability
• Cuvette or 96-well plate assay

Cobalt is an essential micronutrient for all multicellular organisms as the active center of cobalamins, such vitamin B-12, which is essential for plants and animals. Cobalt is also a micronutrient for bacteria, algae, and fungi. Despite being an important micronutrient, excess cobalt in the environment can be deleterious to life leading to cardiomyopathy in humans and necrosis in plants.

Simple, direct and automation-ready procedures for measuring cobalt concentrations find wide applications in research and environmental monitoring. BioAssay systems cobalt assay kit is designed to measure total cobalt directly in aqueous samples without any pretreatment. The intensity of the color, measured at 485 nm, is directly proportional to the cobalt concentration in the sample.