A doctor of osteopathic medicine (DO) is a physician with training that differs slightly from that of a medical doctor with an MD. He or she is equally educated, with four years of undergraduate training, four years of medical schools, and additional years if he or she chooses to specialize.
Making the world better, one answer at a time. You can use a refractometer but it's a bit spendy ranging in price from $100 - $500. Or an inexpensive solution is using Benedict's reagent solution. You put 1ml of Benedict's into 5 -7 drops of liquid that your testing and heat it over a flame in a testtube.The higher the sugar content, the sugar content turns an orange-red and the lesser amount of sugar the solution will turn yellow-green.aking the world better, one answer at a time. You can use a refractometer but it's a bit spendy ranging in price from $100 - $500. Or an inexpensive solution is using Benedict's reagent solution. You put 1ml of Benedict's into 5 -7 drops of liquid that your testing and heat it over a flame in a testtube.
So making the assumption that it's made solely out of sugar-water and alcohol (a reasonable-ish assumption), you can take initial and final readings of the density and subtract the two to determine how much of the sugar has been converted to alcohol. You take a sample and float the device in the liquid.