Friday, September 4, 2009

Refractometers

A refractometer is a laboratory or field device for the measurement of an index of refraction.

Refractometers have been thoroughly adopted in agriculture and in food and beverage is a common abbreviation in the United States.

A Refractometer is a precision tool used to measure salinity. Serious hobbyists know that the best way to measure the salinity and specific gravity of aquarium water is to use a refractometer. These precision optical instruments are incredibly accurate even at very low salt levels, and are equally easy to use. Recently, these instruments have become more affordable, so now every aquarium owner can have one to help monitor water conditions.

The Abbe refractometers sold today operate similarly to their predecessors, using the density of a sample to determine its refraction, in physics, deflection of a wave on passing obliquely from one transparent medium into a second medium in which its speed is different, as the passage of a light ray from air into glass. Digital refractometers, the other major bench-top format, reflect light through a prism toward a sample and find the angle at which it refracts and reflects onto the same line.

High performance automatic refractometer offers advanced features associated with the world's best refractometers, such as a secure data storage card, custom programming of concentration scales, highly durable touch screen controls, keyboard lockout security feature, and interfacing with polarimeters.

Author Name: Kathy Brasch : Nationalmicroscope.com

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  1. nice information related to the abbe refractometers,thanks for sharing this information.Abbe Refractometer - to messure Range, Accuracy, Scale value etc of liquids and solids and this is useful in industry & Laboratory Equipment.

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