The Babcock Test Glassware 



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steam is introduced into the bottle chamber or 

 where the cover fits so tightly that no cold air 

 enters the chamber during the whirling ; the bottles 

 are often heated to such a degree that the reading 

 is made too large because of the expansion of the 

 fat at the high temperature. The fat should be read 

 at a temperature of 110 F., 

 but up to 140 F. the expan- 

 sion is not sufficient to cause 

 material error. When, how- 

 ever, the temperature rises to 

 200 F. or thereabout, as fre- 

 quently occurs under the con- 

 ditions named above, the error 

 due to the expan- 

 sion of the fat may 

 amount to .15 to 

 .3 per cent. In all 

 such cases the bot- 

 tles should be al- 

 lowed to cool to at 

 least 140 F. before 



reading. Those Cen- Fig. 13. Steam turbine centrifugal for 



Babcock test. (See opposite page.) 



tnfugals are most 



satisfactory in which provision is made for the bottles 

 to assume a perfectly horizontal position when in mo- 

 tion and a perfectly perpendicular one when at rest. 

 The glassware. The glassware consists of a flask 

 or test bottle in which the determination is made, 

 a graduated pipette for measuring the milk, and a 

 short graduated glass cylinder for measuring the 



