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c/hplc·posted 1 year ago by u/enzo_petrescu

chromatogram: the version I wish someone had shown me in week 1

Discussion Well Actually ×4 Long Haul ×3 Slow Clap ×3

Right, the purity question again, but with numbers this time.

I have 12 data points over 32 weeks. The pattern is consistent enough that I do not think it is chance, and boring enough that nobody is going to screenshot it, which is usually a good sign.

The thing I would flag for anyone new: the effect I am describing showed up at week 93, not week 47. People give up long before the interesting part.

Interested in whether this matches other people's logs or whether I am an outlier.

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u/hana_lehtinen229 points·1 year ago
i changed my mind reading this, which never happens
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u/hplc_hobbyistruns their own column186 points·1 year ago

Three years on this site and the questions have not changed at all. Which is depressing or reassuring depending on the day.

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u/rina_bergstrom60 points·1 year ago

That is net peptide content, not purity. Different number, different meaning.

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u/zeynep_zielinski170 points·1 year ago

area% and mass% are not the same and this whole post conflates them

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u/vikram_asante-25 points·1 year ago

What was the column and what gradient?

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u/enzo_petrescuOP108 points·1 year ago

Gradient goblin mode: changed the solvent composition 19 times, finally got good resolution on a gradient peak.

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u/blunt_coldbox_2024117 points·1 year ago

Yeah, the chromatogram profile matters more than the headline number.

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u/sig_figs_samMOD74 points·1 year ago

Tracking number removed. It identifies both ends of a shipment.

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u/ewan_marchand21 points·1 year ago

axis labels included, always

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u/hydration_hank41 points·1 year ago

Tracking number removed.

Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 83 weeks to accept.

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u/downvote_magnet40 points·1 year ago

related substances are where the story lives, not the main peak

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u/cormac_roos59 points·1 year ago

state the method: column, gradient, detection wavelength, injection volume

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u/first_hundred14 points·1 year ago

Respectfully this is a sample of one presented as a finding.

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u/crosspost_bot_no49 points·1 year ago

co-elution is real and purity is usually not enough to resolve it

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u/marit_mwangi38 points·1 year ago

the gradient is doing the separation work, not the column alone

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u/georgi_chowdhury31 points·1 year ago

Edit to your parent would help — the concentration you quoted assumes one scenario and you have written another above it.

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u/enzo_petrescuOP11 points·1 year ago

state the method: column, gradient, detection wavelength, injection volume

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u/hedda_ekstrom31 points·1 year ago

Disagree but this is the good kind of wrong — it is specific enough to be checked.

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u/nnt_nate12 points·1 year ago

state the method: column, gradient, detection wavelength, injection volume

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u/gustav_solberg7 points·1 year ago

two labs, two different baselines, two different purity numbers, both honest

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u/erez_yilmaz0 points·1 year ago

Slight fix: the number was 98.1, not 98.0. Decimal point, but a fairly consequential one.

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u/sofia_petrescu21 points·1 year ago

This is the correct method framing. Column and gradient are load-bearing fields.

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u/enzo_petrescuOP16 points·1 year ago

Ran the same vial on two columns, different purity, both right, different separation. Method matters more than equipment.

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u/teodor_szabo16 points·1 year ago

Not to be pedantic but LC-MS and LC-MS are being used interchangeably and they are not interchangeable in real life.

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u/niels_lindqvist24 points·1 year ago

Ran the same vial on two columns, different purity, both right, different separation. Method matters more than equipment.

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