It has been suggested that electrode dissolution and the concomitant saturation of the electrode's diffusion layer restricts the detection limit of the jalpaite Cu ion-selective electrode (ISE) to samples with total Cu levels above 10(exp-5) mol dm(exp -3) [1, 2]. This article will use rotating disk electrode (RDE) data for San Diego Bay seawater and Fick's law of diffusion to demonstrate that the static commercial Orion Cu ISE (employing a ...