How Can Barium Nitrate Enhance CO2 Measurement Accuracy?

[jgens]

What would be a relatively simple methodology to measure the CO2 concentrations of the air? Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

 

[russ_watters]

The simplest way would be with a CO2 meter: http://www.vaisala.com/instruments/products/carbondioxide/gm70

 

[jgens]

Thanks! As a side note, would it be possible, knowing the volume of a room, to create a chemical reaction allowing an individual to calculate the CO2 concentration from the mass of the product?

 

[mgb_phys]

Yes, you could have a known concentration of CaOH2, blow a known volume of air through it and either titrate the remaining CaOH2 or filter out the CaCO3 and weigh it

 

[Borek]

For the record: Ca(OH)₂.

 

[chemisttree]

... and http://books.google.com/books?id=Uu...IGbCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result" would be a more sensitive reagent to use than calcium hydroxide.