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Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 1987

Filed:

Oct. 31, 1985
Applicant:
Inventors:

Ernst Steudle, D-5110 Alsdorf, DE;

Josef Zillikens, Julich, DE;

Gerd Boling, Inden-Pier, DE;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
73 643 ;
Abstract

The invention relates to methods for the determination of the concentration of substances dissolved in a solution by means of an osmotic cell, using a pressure measurement device, and an apparatus incorporating the aforesaid osmotic cell with pressure measurement device. According to a first method, the concentrations of the substances are determined by the formation of the differences between a final pressure which is established after contact with the solution and an original and minimum pressure. According to a second method, the pressure/time course of biphasic response curves is analyzed in the vicinity of the minimum pressure, along with the rate constant for the exponential pressure increase which takes place after the minimum pressure, and the concentrations of the substances are then computed. According to a third method, simultaneous with one another, the initial slopes of the pressure/time curve of the pressure decrease in two osmotic cells are determined, and from these data, two results are determined, which are functions of the concentrations of the substances, and the concentrations of the substances are calculated from them. The reflection coefficients of both osmotic cells must thereby differ sufficiently.


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