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An Analysis of Caffeine in Coffee

3 points| ProjectBarks | 3 years ago |youtube.com

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LarsAlereon|3 years ago

This was super interesting! It's disappointing that it takes a $2700 machine and $10 in consumables per test to learn this, but I'm glad we finally have access to this kind of information.

HarryHirsch|3 years ago

It's clear that caffeine is detected through a colorimetric reaction (the murexide reaction), consequently old-school hackers will use a Spec 20: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectronic_20

2700 dollars for a single-wavelength colorimeter? That's madness!