Construction of a microcumputer-based reaction-rate ratemeter.
The design and construction of a ratemeter based on a KIM-1 single-board microcomputer are discussed. The reaction monitor signal is digitized with a voltage-frequency converter and the resulting data points are stored in computer memory. Through software, the reaction-rate is calculated by the fixed-time computation method. A unique software-hardware combination is used for conversion from binary to binary-coded decimal format so that the results are printed in decimal notation. The characteristics of the ratemeter are compared with those of earlier ratemeters.
Ryan
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Department of Chemistry, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331, USA.
Ingle
J D
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