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c/coa·submitted 11 months ago by u/tidy_vialdrawer_watch

19 months in and purity is still the thing I get wrong

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Confession thread, sort of. I went from 2.5mg to 1.0mg much faster than I should have because the scale had stalled and I got impatient. The stall broke about 15 weeks later, at which point I had no way of knowing whether the dose increase did anything or whether it would have broken anyway. So now I have…

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u/coa_janitorMOD430 points·10 months ago

Flair changed to match the content. Read the sidebar before posting next time and we are square.

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u/tidy_vialdrawer_watchOP226 points·10 months ago

Inter-lab variance on this kind of assay is routinely 1–2 points. Different column, different gradient, different integration.

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u/vito_chowdhury209 points·10 months ago

the method line is doing real work, not just window dressing

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u/tuva_aalto328 points·10 months ago

axis labels included, always

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u/gallbladder_gary182 points·10 months ago

axis labels included, always

Counter-anecdote: opposite result, same dose. Which mostly tells us the variance is huge.

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[removed]131 points·10 months ago

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u/yara_antonsen-35 points·10 months ago

the related substances line is where the story is

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u/yara_antonsen1 point·10 months ago

Small correction: the trial was 3 weeks, not 25. Does not change your point but people will quote it.

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u/cato_achebe117 points·10 months ago

Small correction: the trial was 22 weeks, not 19. Does not change your point but people will quote it.

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u/elodie_yilmaz534 points·10 months ago

Flair changed to match the content.

Adding to this: area percent is doing more work than the comment implies.

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u/isabela_nilsen320 points·10 months ago

purity and net content are two different numbers, same vial

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