GRADO PLATO

English translation: degree Plato

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Spanish term or phrase:GRADO PLATO
English translation:degree Plato
Entered by: Charles Davis

11:51 Mar 3, 2019
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - IT (Information Technology) / EDI - accounting - Units of Measure
Spanish term or phrase: GRADO PLATO
SPAIN. I'm tempted just to call this "plate degree"... It appears in a seemingly interminable list of different types of units of measure and so far I'm stumped. The text sample I'm posting below provides a definition of the term:


"SE ENTIENDE POR “GRADO PLATO” LA CANTIDAD EN GRAMOS DE EXTRACTO SECO PRIMITIVO DEL MOSTO ORIGINAL DE LA CERVEZA CONTENIDO EN 100 GRAMOS DE DICHO MOSTO A LA TEMPERATURA DE 20º C."
neilmac
Spain
Local time: 07:03
degree plato
Explanation:
Would you believe...

"Plato Gravity Scale is a measurement of the concentration of dissolved solids in a brewery wort. Degrees Plato (°P) is used to quantify the concentration of extract (mainly sugars derived from malt but also including other soluble material in wort) as a percentage by weight. A 10°P wort will contain 10 g of extract per 100 g of wort."
https://beerandbrewing.com/dictionary/NpUFIRRVLp/

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Note added at 7 mins (2019-03-03 11:58:38 GMT)
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Nothing to do with the philosopher; it's named after one Fritz Plato. It should be degree(s) Plato with a capital P.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_measurement#Other_density...

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Note added at 8 mins (2019-03-03 11:59:57 GMT)
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And if you're interested (which I expect you're not), Fritz Plato (1858-1938) was a German chemist.

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Note added at 19 hrs (2019-03-04 07:44:54 GMT)
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Glad to hear it!
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Charles Davis
Spain
Local time: 07:03
Grading comment
Thanks again, Charles!
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degree plato


Explanation:
Would you believe...

"Plato Gravity Scale is a measurement of the concentration of dissolved solids in a brewery wort. Degrees Plato (°P) is used to quantify the concentration of extract (mainly sugars derived from malt but also including other soluble material in wort) as a percentage by weight. A 10°P wort will contain 10 g of extract per 100 g of wort."
https://beerandbrewing.com/dictionary/NpUFIRRVLp/

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Note added at 7 mins (2019-03-03 11:58:38 GMT)
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Nothing to do with the philosopher; it's named after one Fritz Plato. It should be degree(s) Plato with a capital P.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_measurement#Other_density...

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Note added at 8 mins (2019-03-03 11:59:57 GMT)
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And if you're interested (which I expect you're not), Fritz Plato (1858-1938) was a German chemist.

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Note added at 19 hrs (2019-03-04 07:44:54 GMT)
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Glad to hear it!

Charles Davis
Spain
Local time: 07:03
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 24
Grading comment
Thanks again, Charles!
Notes to answerer
Asker: Cheers. Am always interested in solving these enigmas :-)

Asker: And thanks to your post, I've managed to find other useful resources for this project, such as http://measurement.enacademic.com/

Asker: Three years later, and this same term has cropped up again in a translation. I'd forgotten this. A thousand thanks again to you Charles, wherever you are, you are sorely missed.


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agree  philgoddard
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agree  Stephen McCann
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