Potentiometric stripping analysis is based on the potentiostatic pre-concentration of analytes in a mercury film and the subsequent registration on a xt-recorder of the resulting redox titration curve obtained when the potentiostatic circuitry is disconnected. In the present study, it is shown that zinc, thallium, cadmium, lead, bismuth, copper can be analyzed in acid solution using dissolved oxygen, in equilibrium with air, as oxidant. For analyte concentrations above approximately 25 μg/L potentiometric stripping analysis in non-deaerated samples is more rapid than analysis in deaerated samples using mercury(II) as oxidant. © 1979, American Chemical Society. All rights reserved.