[Noisebridge-discuss] Know anyone with a gas chromatograph/spectrograph and/or able to measure caloric levels in alcohol?

[Jonathan Lassoff]

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Gian Pablo Villamil
<gian.pablo at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hey, a friend of mine is doing an interesting project involving measuring
> stats for different kinds of alcoholic beverages, I was wondering if there
> was anyone in the NB community who might be interested/qualified/equipped
> for this.
>
> The first thing is measuring the levels of methyl alcohols in different
> spirits, for which apparently a gas chromatograph or spectrograph is needed.
> Anyone here have one of those, or know someone who does/has access to one?
>
> The second thing is measuring the caloric levels in different spirits. Not
> sure how this is done. Anyone out there qualified to do this? (I think
> drinking the stuff and then weighing yourself is probably not precise
> enough).
>

I'm curious to know how that's measured as well.
Perhaps extracting all of the glucose from it, and combusting it in a sealed
container in conductive contact with some water and measuring how much it's
heated?

--j

>
> If you can do the first and/or second things there is a paid gig in this.
>
> Let me know...
>
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