FOOD RESOURCE COLLEGE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SCIENCES, OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
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Excerpts from Bender, Arnold E. 1990. Dictionary of Nutrition and Food Technology. Butterworths, Boston.
Polarimeter used to determine the purity of sugar; graduated on the International Sugar Scale - degrees sugar. 26% solution of pure sucrose reads 100 degrees sugar in a 200 mm tube.
is a polarimeter to measure the optical rotation of sucrose solutions. This is calibrated to read the rotation in degrees S or degrees Z
