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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 08, 2010
Frank Howland Carpenter, Fort Collins, CO (US);
John Robert Woodward, Windsor, CO (US);
Karl Lewis King, Windson, CO (US);
Frank Howland Carpenter, Fort Collins, CO (US);
John Robert Woodward, Windsor, CO (US);
Karl Lewis King, Windson, CO (US);
Hach Company, Loveland, CO (US);
Abstract
A low-slope pH electrode () is provided according to an embodiment of the invention. The low-slope pH electrode () includes an electrode body (), a pH-sensitive glass () fused into the electrode body (), with the pH-sensitive glass () including a predetermined area, and a mask () formed over a predetermined portion of the predetermined area of the pH-sensitive glass () in order to form a low-slope pH characteristic. At least a portion of an ion exchange performed by the pH-sensitive glass () is blocked by the mask ().