Department of Viticulture and Enology
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What are the different ways of expressing concentration? How are mass/mass, volume/volume, and mass/volume solutions prepared? Why do we make solutions? Copyright Thi… -
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How can a spectrophotometer be used to quantify phenols and characterize wine color? What are the contributors to wine color and how can they be chemically distinguished… -
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How can malic acid be quantified when tracking the progress of malolactic fermentation? What are some similarities and differences between the analyses of malic acid and… -
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How do you analyze free SO2 by Aeration-Oxidation? How does the method work; what's the underlying chemistry? How is the volume of titrant (NaOH) used to calculate… -
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What is the Ripper method for SO2 analysis? How similar or different is this from the analysis of titratable acidity? How is the volume of titrant (iodine) used to… -
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What's the lowest concentration that a method or instrument can detect, and what's the lowest it can measure? What's the difference? How do we determine… -
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What is a control chart? What are the components of a control chart and how do you make one? How is it used to determine whether things are going wrong over time? … -
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How do we know when we're really done with fermentation? How does enzymatic analysis work? What are the components of an enzymatic assay kit? Copyright Thi Nguyen… -
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What are some ways we can compare our method against a reference method? How can linear regression be used to compare datasets? What parameters in the regression… -
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What is internal standardization and what makes a good internal standard? Why does it work and how is it done? Copyright Thi Nguyen Do not distribute without permission… -
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How is spike recovery used to evaluate the accuracy of an analytical method? How are one-tailed t-tests used to compare an experimental treatment versus a control? Can… -
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Might R-squared values be a bit misleading? How should we evaluate the linearity of calibration curves? How do we create residual plots and use them to check for… -
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What is the difference between a primary and secondary method? How do ebulliometry and near-infrared spectroscopy work? Copyright Thi Nguyen Do not distribute without… -
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How do gas chromatography and flame ionization detection work? What is internal standardization and what is its purpose? Copyright Thi Nguyen Do not distribute… -
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What is chromatography and how does it work? How are the components of a mixture separated? What does advanced instrumental chromatographic analysis look like? …