Significance and Use
This test method is used to determine the quantity of sugar present in vegetable tanning materials or vegetable tannin extracts. The amount of the reducing sugars, total sugars, and non-reducing sugars in a sample of material or extract can be determined by this method.
Because of the possibility of errors in this test method it is essential that the method be followed exactly in order to obtain reproducible results both among specimens within a laboratory and for analyses between laboratories.
1. Scope
1.1 This test method covers determining the sugars present in vegetable tanning materials.
1.2 The values stated in SI units are to be regarded as the standard. The inch-pound units given in parentheses are for information only.
1.3 This standard does not purport to address all of the safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety and health practices and determine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use.
2. Referenced Documents (purchase separately) 
The documents listed below are referenced within the subject standard but are not provided as part of the standard.
ASTM Standards
D4901 Practice for Preparation of Solution of Liquid Vegetable Tannin Extracts
D4905 Practice for Preparation of Solution of Solid, Pasty and Powdered Vegetable Tannin Extracts
D6401 Test Method for Determining Non-Tannins and Tannin in Extracts of Vegetable Tanning Materials
D6403 Test Method for Determining Moisture in Raw and Spent Materials
D6404 Practice for Sampling Vegetable Materials Containing Tannin
D6405 Practice for Extraction of Tannins from Raw and Spent Materials
D6408 Test Method for Analysis of Tannery Liquors
ALCA Methods
A30 Sugar in Tanning Materials Official Methods of the American Leather Chemists Association. Available from the American Leather Chemists Association, University of Cincinnati, P.O. Box 210014, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0014.
Keywords
dextrose analysis; glucose analysis; sugar analysis; tannin analysis; vegetable tannin analysis; Dextrose analysis; Glucose analysis; Sugar content; Tanning analysis/materials; Vegetable-tanned leather ;
ICS Code
ICS Number Code 59.140.10 (Processes and auxiliary materials)
DOI: 10.1520/D6406-99R09
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