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| Feb 24, 2015 at 12:23 | comment | added | Quassnoi♦ | @MartinPeters: not quite. He did study properties of water solutions and suggested several methods and tools to measure solution concentrations more exactly, but the standard of 40% ABV was used primarily for taxation purposes and Mendeleev did not work on its creation. | |
| Feb 24, 2015 at 12:09 | vote | accept | Martin Peters | ||
| Feb 24, 2015 at 12:08 | comment | added | Martin Peters | Thanks a lot! Is it true that the famous chemist Mendeleev was asked what the strenghth of vodka should be and that he then defined it as 40 degrees? | |
| Feb 24, 2015 at 11:44 | history | answered | Quassnoi♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |