| Abstract: | Abstract An artifactual signal splitting was observed for acetic acid during the capillary zone electrophoresis of wine acids. Further study revealed that other comparably weak acids, propionic and butyric, show a similar split. Stronger carboxylic acids, formic, tartaric, malic, citric, and lactic acids showed no artifactual signal splits under the analysis conditions. Succinic acid showed intermediate behavior. The signal splitting could be eliminated by reducing the sample size and/or by employing the background electrolyte as the diluant. |
