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Gas measuring testing tube

US4554133A · kind A · utility

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3References
5Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateSep 28, 1983
Grant dateNov 19, 1985
Priority date
Expiry dateSep 28, 2003

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01N21/783
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A highly sensitive test tube according to the invention increases the sensitivity of detection of a component in a gas substantially and thus enlarges the area of use of the test tube. It possesses a reagent strip impregnated according to the gas to be detected, which strip is held by a granular fill material between holding elements. The test gas, conveyed by a pump through the test tube, from which test gas the gas to be detected is removed at the reagent strip, is continually moved through the granular fill material and thoroughly mixed, so that the actual continually decreasing concentration of the gas component is available at the reagent strip. Upon complete removal of this gas component by reaction with the reagent strip, the concentration can then be read at the reagent strip. The narrow reagent strip, which takes up the entire gas component, evidences even small admixtures.

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