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Instrument: Unisense oxygen microsensor

Acronym:
 Unisense O2
External Identifier:
» skos:exactMatch http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L22/current/TOOL0461/
Description

The Unisence oxygen microsensor is a miniaturized Clark-type dissolved oxygen instrument, including glass micro-sensors with minute tips (diameters ranging from 1 to 800 um). A gold sensing cathode is polarized against an internal reference and, driven by external partial pressure, oxygen from the environment penetrates through the sensor tip membrane and is reduced at the sensing cathode surface. A picoammeter converts the resulting reduction current to a signal. The sensor also includes a polarized guard cathode, which scavenges oxygen in the electrolyte, thus minimizing zero-current and pre-polarization time. See more on the manufacturer's website: https://www.unisense.com/