Taking the Measure of Water

Water Properties in Food, Health, Pharmaceutical and Biological Systems: ISOPOW 10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 199-218

  Reid, David S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

amount of water oldest, and longest established measure of water; Measurement characterizing food systems; Metric defining contribution from water gravimetric determination; oven drying chemical degradation; Solute solute interactions determining system behavior; Taking water measurement; vacuum oven drying reducing thermal degradation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886159090     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470958193.ch16     Document Type: Chapter

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