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A short note on the relationship between oven and toluene dry matter in maize silage
Author(s) -
Haigh Philip M.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
journal of the science of food and agriculture
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.782
H-Index - 142
eISSN - 1097-0010
pISSN - 0022-5142
DOI - 10.1002/jsfa.2740300517
Subject(s) - dry matter , toluene , silage , chemistry , distillation , chromatography , zoology , food science , organic chemistry , biology
Dry matter (DM) contents of 34 maize silage samples were determined by toluene distillation and oven drying at 100°C. The toluene distillation method gave values 3.5–18.9% higher than the oven drying method. A highly significant correlation was shown between toluene dry matter and oven dry matter and an equation toluene DM = 0.95 oven DM + 3.3 ( r = 0.95) presented which allows toluene dry matter to be readily estimated on a routine basis for maize silage.