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The rapid determination of carcass fat by the Foss-Let specific gravity technique
The British Journal of Nutrition
|November 1, 1976
Abstract:
1. Carcass fat was determined by extraction with tetrachloroethylene and measurement of the solvent's change in density. The results were comparable in precision to those of a reference method; the new method extracted storage lipid but little structural lipid. 2. The technique is simple, rapid and appropriate for many nutritional studies.

