26.1.

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AOAC Official Method 945.06
Specific Gravity (Apparent)
of Distilled Liquors
Pycnometer Method
Final Action
A. Apparatus
(a) Constant temperature water bath.
(b) Pycnometers.—100 and 50 mL (Figure 942.06 [see 26.1.07]).
B. Calibration
Fill thoroughly cleaned pycnometer with recently distilled H2O,
stopper, and immerse in constant temperature H2O bath with bath
level above graduation mark on pycnometer. After 30 min, remove
stopper and with capillary tube adjust until bottom of meniscus is
tangent to graduation mark. With small roll of filter paper, dry inside
neck of pycnometer, stopper, and immerse in H2O at room tempera-
ture 15 min. Remove pycnometer, dry, let stand 15 min, and weigh.
Empty pycnometer, rinse with acetone, and dry thoroughly in air
with suction. Let empty flask come to room temperature, stopper,
and weigh. Weight in air of contained H2O = weight filled pycnome-
ter − weight empty pycnometer.
C. Determination
Obtain weight of sample as in 945.06B.

Specific gravity in air = S/W, where S = weight sample,

and W = weight H2O.

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