Category:Saccharimeter

Sac`cha*rim"e*ter, n. Etym: [l. saccharon sugar + -meter: cf. F. Saccharimètre.]

Defn: an instrument for ascertain the quantity of saccharine matter In any solution, as the juice of a plant, or brewers' and distillers' Worts. [written also saccharometer.]

Note: the common saccharimeter of the brewer is an hydrometer adapted By its scale to point out the proportion of saccharine matter in a Solution of any specific gravity. The polarizing saccharimeter of the Chemist is a complex optical apparatus, in which polarized light is Transmitted through the saccharine solution, and the proportion of Sugar indicated by the relative deviation of the plane of Polarization.