What is measured by the Balling scale?

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Balling Scale is a measurement of the concentration of dissolved solids (mainly sugars) in a brewery wort. The measurement scale was devised by the German chemist Karl Balling, who in 1843 established a set of tables relating the weight percentage of sucrose solutions to the specific gravity of the solution at a temperature of 17.5°C (63.5°F)
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flagGermany
76%
4%
16%
4%
25
flagAustralia
40%
6%
46%
6%
15
flagthe United States
34%
2%
51%
11%
35
flagPoland
33%
4%
52%
9%
719
flagthe United Kingdom
17%
35%
41%
5%
17