Photopaper as a Tool for Community-Level Monitoring of Industrially Produced Hydrogen Sulfide and Corrosion.

ABSTRACT: Scientific instrumentation driven by academic, military, and industrial applications tends to be high cost, designed for expert use, and "black boxed". Community-led citizen science (CLCS) is creating different research instruments with different measurement goals and processes. This paper identifies four design attributes for CLCS tools: affordability, accessibility, builds community efficacy and provides actionable data through validating a community method for monitoring the neurotoxic and corrosive gas Hydrogen Sulfide (H₂S). For $1 per sample, the semi-quantitative method provides an affordable and easily interpretable data for communities to compare H₂S concentrations and silver corrosion in their home environments to those in a major municipal sewage treatment

SUBMITTER: Vera L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7319185 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature