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A RAPID and simple chromatographic procedure has been developed in this laboratory for the determination of glycerol in solutions obtained by the sulphite fermentation process of Cuban blackstrap molasses, and it is considered that the method may have wider applications. Neish1 has described a chromatographic procedure for the determination of glycerol present in amounts up to about 5 mgm. in small samples of fermentation solutions. The present method is suitable for the determination of glycerol which may be present in amounts of the order of 500 mgm., thus permitting the use of a volumetric procedure for the final determination of glycerol.
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WILLIAMS, A. Determination of Glycerol in Fermentation Solutions: a Rapid Chromatographic Procedure. Nature 171, 655 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/171655a0
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