Red wine produced from the Malbec grape is increasing in popularity in the
United States. However, the US is a relatively small producer of the wine
compared to Argentina, where it is the most extensively planted grape
variety in the country. With rising imports into the US from Argentina there
are growing concerns relating to the validation of the geographical origin of
this wine.
Typically ICP
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M
S is used to distinguish between wines originating from
different regions by comparing the relative concentrations of mineral
elements, which are characteristic of the soil composition of the region of
production. In this study, a cost
-
effective approac
h has been taken using
Microwave Plasma
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Atomic Emission Spectroscopy (MP
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AES) to measure
6 elements (Sr, Rb, Ca, K, Na and Mg). Agilents Mass Profiler Professional
(MPP) integrated chemometrics software and another data analysis package
were used to m
odel the MP
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AES results to distinguish the geographical
origin of 41 Malbec wine samples produced in Argentina and the USA. Agilent 4200 微波等離子體原子發(fā)射光譜儀
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