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- From: Jeff E Mandel <mandel@tmc.tulane.edu>
- Subject: Re: Looking for inexpensive N2O (Nitrous Oxide) sensor
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- In article <1hqbfdINN862@mizar.usc.edu> Steve Rose, srose@mizar.usc.edu
- writes:
- >Attempting to locate an inexpensive N2O (Nitrous Oxide) sensor/detector
- >sensitive to levels between 5 parts/million to 200 parts/million.
- Continous
- >readout would be ideal, but not absolutely necessary. NO (Nitric Oxide)
- >sensor technology will probably not work.
- >
- >Probable required technology (given cost constraints) would be
- >electrochemical/fuel cells. UV or IR sensors would probably be cost-
- >prohibitive.
- >
- >If you have any ideas, or you know other appropriate newsgroups/listservs
- >to post this to, please let me know. So far, I have posted to sci.engr,
- >sci.engr.biomed, and sci.engr.chem
-
- Nitrous Oxide is detectable by polarographic techniques - you just need a
- higher polarizing voltage that that needed for oxygen. I have no idea if
- it is feasible to detect the concentrations you require.
-
- Jeff E Mandel MD MS
- Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
- Tulane University School of Medicine
- New Orleans, LA
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- mandel@vax.anes.tulane.edu
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