Oakton® pH meter becomes a TV star!  | | Oakton pH meter plays major role in solving crime. |
The Oakton pH 11 handheld pH meter is wearing sunglasses these days. But we can’t tell whether it’s because of the meter’s new found celebrity status after appearing in a recent episode of CSI: Miami or it’s just shading its “display” from the bright southern Florida sunshine.
In episode 24 of this past season’s CSI: Miami (originally aired on May 11th) entitled “Dissolved”; a hapless man is pushed into a swimming pool that has been unknowingly laced with a deadly agent. The victim screams and appears to boil right before our very eyes. Is it an accident or is it murder? Enter the CSI: Miami crew to find out.
With the disfigured body still floating in the water, Travers has set up a poolside mobile laboratory. While Delko and Duquesne look on, he determines that a caustic agent not an acid has been added to the pool and that the crime-solving team must neutralize the pH before they can safely remove the body.
Working with the guest starring Oakton pH 11 and electrode, Dequesne measures the pH of the swimming pool, while Delko pours gallon after gallon of acidic vinegar into it to neutralize the killer chemical. The meter is shown reading over a period of accelerated time as the pH of pool drops from near 13.00 through 9.00 until it finally displays a pH of 7.00. Dequesne acknowledges, “Alright the pH is 7. It’s perfectly neutral. It’s safe to get the body out”. If you are interested in the outcome of the case and watching the episode, please go to www.cbs.com/primetime/csi_miami and look for “Dissolved” Season 7 Episode 24.
While Oakton Instruments cannot attest to this extreme depiction of a forensic application, we are very sure that the Oakon pH 11 meter offers laboratory quality performance in a convenient portable design.
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