{"id":68,"date":"2007-07-12T11:42:31","date_gmt":"2007-07-12T15:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/12\/calibrating-a-ph-meter\/"},"modified":"2007-07-12T11:42:31","modified_gmt":"2007-07-12T15:42:31","slug":"calibrating-a-ph-meter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/12\/calibrating-a-ph-meter\/","title":{"rendered":"Calibrating A pH Meter"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"pHTo work properly, a pH meter must be calibrated. You do this by preparing (or buying) buffered solutions<\/a> of known pH and testing the meter against them. My meter uses a two point calibration. It works by immersing the meter in the first buffer solution (pH 6.86 in this case) then reading the pH and temperature values.<\/p>\n

You turn a calibration screw until the meter shows the correct pH for the given temperature (the bottle of buffer solution has a table of temperature and pH values). The pH of the “6.86” buffer solution that I’m using is 6.85 at 30 Celsius, the closest temperature on the correction table to 31.4, so I turned the calibration screw to 6.85. That’s the first “point” of the two point calibration process. The second step is exactly the same but with a different buffer solution (ph 4).<\/p>\n

I’ll use my new toy – um, important scientific instrument – along with my simple acid titration kit to analyze my oregano wine<\/a>. Fermentation has been very slow and I’m afraid the pH of the wine has fallen so low that it’s inhibiting the yeast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To work well, pH meters must be calibrated. Here I explain what that means and how to do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,21,23],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equipment","category-maintenance-and-cleaning","category-measurement-testing","tag-nad"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t