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Webster 1913 Edition
Saccharimeter
Sacˊcha-rim′e-ter
,Noun.
[L.
saccharon
sugar + -meter
: cf. F. saccharimètre
.] An instrument for ascertaining the quantity of saccharine matter in any solution, as the juice of a plant, or brewers’ and distillers' worts.
[Written also
saccharometer
.] ☞ 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.