"Dan Listermann" <dan@listermann.com> wrote in message
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> Checking into water content of honey, the references I found said that[/color]
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> contains between 17 to 21% water. My measured number worked out to 20.65%
> using 46 as 100%. It is highly doubtful that differences between sugars[/color]
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> going to produce anything like the difference between 36.5 and 42. Might[/color]
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> suggest that the references sighting 42 are in error and that their[/color]
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> my sanity test was justified.[/color]

Hi Dan:

I hate to disagree with you but here in the great white north (Ontario,
Canada) I get 42 on most of my honeys(Acacia, Basswood, Wildflower,
Thyme) -checked with my refractometer and verified with my hydrometer. I
suspect that the varience has something to do with the diference in local
honey composition.
Maurice