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c/coa·posted 8 months ago by u/tuva_aalto

COA vs purity — genuinely asking which matters more

Explainer Receipts ×7 Long Haul ×2 Clean Column ×2

I have had 19 orders now and I keep a table, so here is the honest summary rather than a vibe.

Material has been consistent. Communication has not. Shipping has varied by about 8 days on nominally the same lane, which matters more in summer than in February.

The independent number came back 96.8% against a claimed 99.1%, which I read as agreement rather than a discrepancy — inter-lab variance on this assay is a point or two either way and treating one lab as ground truth is how people end up in pointless arguments with vendors.

Batch number is in the comments. Ask if you want the method.

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u/katrin_girard1.2k points·8 months ago

no "is this good?" without saying what the compound and claimed purity are

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u/tidy_vialdrawer_watch796 points·8 months ago

Strongly agree. Mass% and area% are answering different questions on the same document.

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u/first_hundred374 points·8 months ago

Disagree. What you are describing is consistent with certificate of analysis, not with what you concluded.

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u/clara_danquah672 points·8 months ago

Cosigning. The batch number is load-bearing information.

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u/nadia_fonseca402 points·8 months ago

Every time this gets posted it hits the front page and every time someone has to re-explain it.

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[removed]148 points·8 months ago

[removed by moderator]

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u/purity_pedantMOD427 points·8 months ago

Removed a chain here. The rule is one line long and it is not negotiable.

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u/laila_yilmaz-35 points·8 months ago

Cosigning. The batch number is load-bearing information.

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u/tuva_aaltoOP1 point·8 months ago

post the whole document, not the headline number

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