The beginning of the new year is the perfect time to launch a new product or update your store’s inventory. As you decide what type of pH instruments to include in your 2019 product catalog, here are four key factors to keep in mind:
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Every modern consumer depends on water quality monitoring technology, either directly or indirectly. Water quality instruments are responsible for ensuring the safety and quality of food, beverages, household products, drugs, and natural water resources.
Modern pH electrodes are designed to measure the amount of hydrogen ions (H+) and hydroxyl ions (OH-) that are active in a substance to determine how acidic or basic that substance is.
Total dissolved solids (TDS) refers to the amount of ionized solids that have been dissolved in a solution. If you were to add table salt to a glass of water, the salt granules would eventually dissolve, making it difficult to gauge how much salt was present.
Water quality testing equipment is a staple in environmental, life science, and medical research laboratories. In the environmental sector, compiling data on stormwater, groundwater, surface water, and soil is often a vital part of daily operations. In the life science and medical fields, water testing equipment is used to research a variety of solvents and solutions besides water alone.
Almost every product we use today requires massive amounts of water for production. On an elementary level, the process of refining and producing raw materials such as metal, fuel, oil, lumber, chemicals, paper, and plastic demands water.
As our oceans become overfished and the world’s population continues to grow in size, aquaculture has become a massive global industry and secure food source. The percent of seafood supplied by the aquaculture industry has risen from a mere seven percent in 1974 to over 44 percent of all seafood consumed today.
Reliable technology for monitoring water quality is integral to ensuring that the food we eat, the beverages we drink, and the water we come in contact with are safe and healthy to consume.
There are a variety of PH testers on the market, and each is designed with a different application in mind. To choose the best pH tester, it’s important to know what features to look for based on your intended use.
TDS stands for total dissolved solids. Like the name suggests, TDS testers allow users to evaluate the amount of ionized solids dissolved in a liquid or solution without going through the trouble of evaporating the liquid and weighing the residual elements. H2O has a TDS value of zero—in other words, there are no dissolved elements in pure water that have an electrical charge. Because ionized solids will boost the electrical conductivity (EC) of water, the amount of TDS is gauged using an electrical current that measures EC levels.