Timeline for Ensuring an accurate gravity reading
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| Mar 17, 2013 at 16:45 | comment | added | mdma | ah, my bad. You're totally correct, it just sounded wrong when I read it. To be sure, I did a test - dissolved 10g sugar in 40g water - the refractometer shows 20 brix (and not 25.) It seems strangely non-linear that the water decreases and the sugar increases, but that's how the scale is defined. | |
| Mar 17, 2013 at 15:33 | comment | added | FishesCycle | "One degree Brix is 1 gram of sucrose in 100 grams of solution". Doesn't that mean 1 gram of sugar and 99 grams of water to make 100 grams of solution? | |
| Mar 17, 2013 at 1:22 | comment | added | mdma | a lot of useful into there. one correction - it's 10 parts sugar to 100 parts water, not 90. 1.040 is about 10 brix, which by definition is 10% sugar solution - 10 parts sugar to 100 parts water. see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brix | |
| Mar 17, 2013 at 0:43 | history | answered | pjreddie | CC BY-SA 3.0 |