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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 1979

Filed:

May. 25, 1978
Applicant:
Inventors:

Prodyot Roy, Saratoga, CA (US);

George J Licina, Campbell, CA (US);

Assignee:

General Electric Company, San Jose, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
204 / ; 2041 / ;
Abstract

A method of determining the oxygen content of a liquid metal is disclosed and comprises measuring the EMF across an electrolytic cell in which one of the electrodes comprises the liquid metal and the other electrode is a reference electrode of a mixture comprising a known concentration of one of the metals selected from the group of gallium, indium and tin, and an oxide of said metal with the mixture being liquid at the temperature of measurement, and the electrolyte is an oxygen ion conductive, solid electrolyte body wall having a pair of opposite side surfaces with the first one of said surfaces being in intimate contact with the liquid and the other one of said surfaces being in intimate contact with said reference electrode.


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