A pH meter is a laboratory instrument for scientific use, which measures the activity of the hydrogen ion in aqueous solutions, indicating its degree of acidity or alkalinity expressed as pH, is used in laboratories and in multiple other fields or areas; a pH measurement can be obtained using pH indicators or tapes, or meters such as pH meters, portable meters or pH electrodes.
This pH meter instrument makes a measurement of the pH by a potentiometric method, based on the fact that between two solutions with different H + a potential difference is established, which determines when the two solutions come into contact a flow of electric current occurs, in practice the pH measurement is relative, since the pH of a sample is compared with that of a known pH standard solution.