Energy losses associated with oven-drying and the preparation of rat carcasses for analysis
- 1 September 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in British Journal of Nutrition
- Vol. 36 (2), 305-309
- https://doi.org/10.1079/bjn19760084
Abstract
1. The effect of oven-drying on the heat of combustion of rat carcasses was studied and found to produce losses of 10% of the original energy content. Oven-drying also produced a small loss of nitrogen.2. A method of carcass preparation not involving oven-drying was tested and found to produce suitably homogeneous samples for analysis without any loss of energy.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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