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.
The index of refraction of a liquid depends on the density of the liquid. Dissolving sugar in water results in a solution with density greater than that of water alone. Since sugar water is denser than plain water, sugar water should have a higher index of refraction than plain water.iagram of setup for measuring the index of refraction of a liquid using a laser pointer and a hollow triangular prism (not to scale; based on the diagram in Nierer, 2002). 1  The laser pointer should be set up so that its beam (dotted red line in Figure 5) is perpendicular to a nearby wall.