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“A Doubt is at Best an Unsafe Standard”: Measuring Sugar in the Early Bureau of Standards
In 1900, measuring the purity of sugar was a problem with serious economic consequences, and Congress created the Bureau of Standards in part to create accurate standards for saccharimetry. To direct the Polarimetry Section, Director Stratton hired the young chemist Frederick Bates, who went on to m...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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[Gaithersburg, MD] : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology
2007
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4654604/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27110454 http://dx.doi.org/10.6028/jres.112.004 |