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I found some soviet glass electrodes, can i make ph meter ? I put one of electrode in NaOH solution and conect it with voltmeter, but there was no
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No power through the voltmeter, or no power to power said voltmeter?
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Voltage was 0V
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Hmm. Being Soviet era, it may just not work.
It may not have been NaOh.
Or, we're wrong and you can't just use a voltmeter by itself.... not enough potential difference maybe?
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I have4 different soviet glass electrodes. I will make some photos. I use different voltmeter diapozones 200mV, 2000mV, 20V. It wa NaOH  and i can use voltmeter  . :
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Here is some photos:
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Massive mismatch of the output impedance of the electrode and the input impedance of the meter.
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That's generally a good thing? It's my understanding that electrometer inputs are in the >10^12 ohm range, while the electrodes are perhaps
10^6ish.
If you mean the other way, that depends. VOM? Definitely. DMM? Somewhere between crude and good -- most DMMs are rated for 10M input, which will
certainly have error, but won't necessarily short it out altogether. The cheapest pieces of crap are as low as 1M. Many have a "high Z" low range
which is actually an open-circuit amplifier input; these are usually ">50M" or so, but may in reality be gigs or more.
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If the glass electrodes haven't been used for a long time they must be immersed in a conditioning solution (I think very diluted acid) for several
days.
Anyway, from the picture I can't figure out whether what you have are only the glass electrode or a combined electrode which contains besides the
glass electrode a reference electrode. In the former case (which was common in the past) you have to use a separate reference electrode (like a
silver-silver chloride or a calomel). If your electrode is a combined one, you will have to fill the reference electrode compartment whith KCl
solution (1M or maybe saturated, it depends on the electrode), because it has probably dried out during storing.
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On some electrodes is writen colomel. i maybe can get soviet pH meter, where can i bay cheap electrodes if this stuf will not working? How can i know
is this combined electrodes?
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I've took a closer look at your pictures and my bet is what you have are simple glass electrodes (the combined electrode has two inner compartments
filled with solution and two silver wires inside). You'll have to use also a reference electrode in this case (a calomel electrode if you say you have
one). Even though your electrodes have two electrical connections, only one of them is actually connected to the wire inside the electrode, the other
one is only for grounding (shielding) the cable. Be sure to condition the glass electrode for several days as I already said, and also the reference
electrode must be filled with saturated KCl solution and must be kept for some time in a saturated KCl solution, in order to moist the ceramic plug
(diaphragm). You'll have to use at least an electronic voltmeter (they have a higher impedance) or a pH-meter in order to make measurements, and
you'll have to calibrate the electrode with buffer solutions of known pH.
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I will build something like this: http://freecircuitdiagram.com/2009/05/21/simple-ph-meter/
http://www.66pacific.com/ph/simplest_ph.aspx
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I cant open reference electrode to change KCL
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If it still has a solution inside, you don't have to change it. Just keep the electrode immersed in a saturated KCl solution for several days.
After that you can check if the reference electrode is working by making a simple electrochemical cell like this: take a beaker filled with
concentrated NaCl solution, place an iron nail and the reference electrode inside and connect the nail and the reference electrode to the voltmeter.
You should be able to get a reading on the voltmeter, which is the "open circuit potential" of the iron electrode (i.e. nail) in your solution.
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I will try. How to test another electrode, the same way?
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Well, if the reference electrode works, than you can place both the reference and the glass electrode in a buffer solution (e.g. sodium acetate +
acetic acid; a NaOH solution isn't such a good idea because the glass of the pH electrode is very thin and will be etched by the alkaline solution
pretty fast; there are special glass electrodes which work well in very alkaline solutions) and measure the potential.
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I will use this buffer solutions. Will be ok?
0.2M Na2HPO4 /mL |0.1M Citric Acid /mL |pH...
20.55| 79.45| 3.0
38.55| 61.45| 4.0
51.50| 48.50| 5.0
63.15| 36.85| 6.0
82.35| 17.65| 7.0
97.25| 2.75| 8.0
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Sure, you only have to use 2 of them to calibrate the pH-meter, one for the acid domain and one for the basic. If you don't have a pH-meter which has
a scale numbered in pH units and you use a voltmeter, the response of the glass electrode being fairly linear let's say between pH of 2 to 12, if you
take 2 measurements of buffers of known pH and than plot the potential vs. pH you get a line (a "calibration curve") which allows you to obtain the
unknown pH of a solution from the value of the measured potential.
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