- Luggin capillary
A Luggin capillary (also Luggin probe, Luggin tip, or Luggin-Haber capillary) is a small tube that is used in
electrochemistry . The capillary defines a clear sensing point for thereference electrode near theworking electrode . [ cite journal|title=Design of a single-unit Haber-Luggin capillary/dual reference-electrode system|journal=Curr. Sep.|date=1994|first=|last=Gollas, Bernhard and Kraub, Bernd and Speiser, Bernd and Stahl, Hartmut|coauthors=|volume=13|issue=2|pages=|id= |url=|format=|accessdate=2008-10-08 ] citation | last = Shchukin | first = E. D. | year = 1995 | title = Luggin's capillary in studying the effect of electrochemical reaction on mechanical properties of solid surfaces | journal = Journal of Materials Science | volume = 30 | pages = 3111 | doi = 10.1007/BF01209224 ] This is in contrast to the badly defined and largereference electrode .References
*citation | last = Tokuda | first = Koichi | year = 1985 | title = Finite-Element Method Approach to the Problem of the IR-Potential Drop and Overpotential Measurements by Means of a Luggin-Haber Capillary | journal = Journal of the Electrochemical Society | volume = 132 | pages = 2390 | doi = 10.1149/1.2113584
External links
* [http://people.clarkson.edu/~ekatz/luggin_capillary.html Luggin capillary diagram]
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