Monday, November 23, 2020

Things you never knew you needed....a hydrometer

There are interesting Black Friday deals, such as this glass hydrometer—which is useful for brewing.  Hydrometers can measure sugar concentrations.  Here is a lab, Solution Concentrations, with a DIY hydrometer with a pipette.  It comes with a Bible Verse!  Yeah!  Here are instructions to make a hydrometer from a drinking straw and clay or Funtak.  If you have a glass hydrometer, you can compare results between the pipette, straw, and glass hydrometer.  This lab has a nice data sheet to measure the concentration of sugar in soda.  



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