An inexpensive pocket reflectometer for semiquantitative spot test

A pocket-sized, battery-operated, and inexpensive reflectometer by which the sensitivity and accuracy of strip test analyses may be increased consider...
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An Inexpensive Pocket Reflectometer for Semiquantitative Spot Test Analyses Ekkehard Diemann University of Bielefeld D-4800 Bielefeld 1 West Germany

Test strip analysis has gained much interest in a series of applications, e.g., environmental tests, drinking water control, and clinical chemistry, due to its simple and straightforward operation. A major disadvantage of this method is its limited accuracy when the evaluation is done visually vs. a colorimetric scale. We have now succeeded in building a pocket-size, batterv-operated, and inexpensive (all arts