Bathocuproinedisulfonic acid disodium salt has been used as a copper chelator for specific assay in Arabidopsis seedlings. It has been used as an electron chain-associated free radical production inhibitor for superoxide dismutase assay in cells. It has been added to the culture media of trypanosomes as a copper chelator for the stabilization of cysteine.

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Bathocuproinedisulfonic acid is a strong copper chelator. It is used for the determination of copper and iron in biological samples.