What is "brix"

Degrees Brix (symbol °Bx) is the sugar content of an aqueous solution. One degree Brix is 1 gram of sucrose in 100 grams of solution and represents the strength of the solution as percentage by mass. If the solution contains dissolved solids other than pure sucrose, then the °Bx only approximates the dissolved solid content. The °Bx is traditionally used in the wine, sugar, carbonated beverage, fruit juice, and honey industries.

Comparable scales for indicating sucrose content are the degree Plato (°P), which is widely used by the brewing industry, and the degree Balling, which is the oldest of the three systems and therefore mostly found in older textbooks, but also still in use in some parts of the world.

A sucrose solution with an apparent specific gravity (20°/20 °C) of 1.040 would be 9.99325 °Bx or 9.99359 °P while the representative sugar body, the International Commission for Uniform Methods of Sugar Analysis (ICUMSA), which favors the use of mass fraction, would report the solution strength as 9.99249%. Because the differences between the systems are of little practical significance (the differences are less than the precision of most common instruments) and wide historical use of the Brix unit, modern instruments calculate mass fraction using ICUMSA official formulas but report the result as °Bx.

Brix is a puzzle game for DOS, developed by Michael Riedel (Radiesel) and produced and published by Epic MegaGames in . It is a clone of Taito's Puzznic, and thus bears strong graphical and some gameplay similarities to Flipull/Plotting, also produced by Taito.

Degrees Brix (°Bx) is a unit of measurement of sucrose in a liquid.

Brix may also refer to:

• Brix, Manche, a small town of Normandy in the Manche department
• Adolf Ferdinand Wenceslaus Brix, after which the unit degrees Brix was named
• Emil Brix, Austrian diplomat
• BRIX, Filipino-American song-writer, producer and performer with a licensed business in Massachusetts est. 1982
• Juco Brix, American Hip-Hop beat maker
• Brix Smith, American-born singer and guitarist
• Bruce Bennett, American actor originally named "Herman Brix"
• Brix (video game), a puzzle game for the Personal Computer

:*not to be confused with Zzyzzyxx, another videogame also known as Brix, found in arcades instead

• Brix (database), a database of protein fragments.
• BRiX, open-source operating system
• Brixton, a borough of London
• Brix Restaurant, an eatery located in Boston
• Brix Chocolate, a chocolate for wine
• Brix, a bibliographic database produced by the Building Research Establishment

BriX is a database containing some protein fragments from 4 to 14 residue from non-homologous proteins.

There are very few loops registered in Brix, so to address this issue, Loop Brix was added to the system to help structure non-regular elements. These are organized with clustering of end to end elements and their distance between residues that flank the top of the peptide. Currently the system also encourages user submitted structures to be uploaded so long as they match Brix classes.