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c/hplc·posted 10 months ago by u/two_mil_or_one

small win: chromatogram stopped being a problem at week 95

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

I have 15 data points over 40 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 56, not week 10. 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/hplc_hobbyistMOD283 points·10 months ago

Retitled to remove editorialising. Put the evidence in the body.

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u/hydration_hank157 points·10 months ago

a round-robin on baseline integration would be genuinely useful

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u/clara_danquah-15 points·10 months ago
controversial sort brought me here and it was worth it
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u/elodie_grimaldi157 points·10 months ago

I love that this community will spend 40 comments on a detail. That pedantry is why the numbers here matter.

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u/nabila_espinoza68 points·10 months ago

chromatogram or it did not happen

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u/careful_gradient109 points·10 months ago·edited

a round-robin on baseline integration would be genuinely useful

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u/arne_nyberg35 points·10 months ago·edited

What was the column and what gradient?

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u/adaeze_batista69 points·10 months ago

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

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u/two_mil_or_oneOP62 points·10 months ago

A shoulder on the main peak that 3 analysts integrated 26 different ways. Same trace, 99.0 spread.

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u/vikram_asante93 points·10 months ago

axis labels included, always

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u/cormac_roos24 points·10 months ago

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

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u/matias_salgado29 points·10 months ago

Strongly agree. Largest single impurity tells a different story than total purity.

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