Monosegmented flow systems were conceived by Pasquini and Oliveira 1 as a means to attain a long sample resident time without pronounced dispersion. The approach has been exploited mainly for improving the sensitivity and/or sampling rate. [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] The sample is inserted into the carrier stream between two air bubbles and, as a consequence, its integrity is maintained and the wash period reduced. A sample compartment is then formed and preserved, inside of which vortices are established.10 This compartment may act as a titration vessel with efficient stirring when the sample and titrant (plus indicator) are sequentially inserted to constitute a tandem plug between the air bubbles. A mixing chamber in the analytical path is then not required and a washing step is efficiently accomplished. This feature becomes particularly attractive for flow titrations that do not require analytical curves. [11][12][13][14] Classical titrations are based on the sample-to-titrant volumetric ratios and stoichiometry, whereas flow titrations usually require calibration curves involving analytical solutions. [15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25] For some applications, however, the preparation of the analytical solutions becomes cumbersome. This may become a limiting factor in situations of a pronounced matrix effect when matrix matching is not feasible as e.g. in the analysis of molasses. Moreover, the results may depend on more than one analyte, and different analytes may present different reaction stoichiometries towards the titrant.To circumvent this drawback, Araújo and co-workers 26 developed a flow titrator exploiting calibration of the concentration gradient generated after sample injection into a diluent carrier stream. Analytical solutions were not required, but the dispersion of the sample should be identical to that of the solution used for a previous gradient calibration. Although other flow systems that did not require analytical curves have been proposed [11][12][13][14] , the sample and/or titrant had to be injected several times after proper volume variations, and the sample throughput was very dependent on the washing period. This period undergoes a reduction with monosegmentation.The feasibility of a monosegmented tandem flow system to perform automatic flow titrations was demonstrated in the present work. As an application, a spectrophotometric determination of vinegar acidity using NaOH and phenolphthalein as the titrant and as the indicator was selected. The end point search was based on the one-dimensional optimization method of Fibonacci 27 , which was recently adapted for fast titrations. 14 The algorithm always minimizes the initial interval of uncertainty related to the titrant volume, which contains the optimized value (volume at the equivalence point). After successive reduction steps, the interval converges to a very narrow one, the final interval of uncertainty which corresponds to the titrant volume at the equivalence point plus its uncertainty. A monosegmented flow system involvi...