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I'm not a chemist, or a scientist of any sort, but isn't this reinventing the wheel? I thought that gas chromatographs were the standard way of evaluating the a

I'm not a chemist, or a scientist of any sort, but isn't this reinventing the wheel? I thought that gas chromatographs were the standard way of evaluating the amount of capsaicin in peppers, leading to the Scoville rating. Perhaps the author should have done a little googling before starting his experiment.

phantom_of_cato 4y ago
> I thought that gas chromatographs were the standard way of evaluating the amount of capsaicin in peppers The "GC" in "miniGC" probably stands for gas chromatography.