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c/hplc·submitted 10 months ago by u/quiet_reader_99

three years of chromatogram threads, summarised so you do not have to read them

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chromatogram. That is the whole post, but I will justify it. Everything else people worry about in c/dosinglogs is downstream of it. Titration speed, early fullness, the endless dose arguments — most of it resolves if you sort chromatogram out first, and almost nobody does. I say this having got it wrong for 19…

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u/vikram_asante377 points·10 months ago

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

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u/quiet_reader_99OP180 points·10 months ago

Strongly agree.

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

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u/step_count_stan44 points·10 months ago

the detector wavelength matters more than people think

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[removed]33 points·10 months ago

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u/quiet_reader_99OP0 points·10 months ago

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

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u/quiet_reader_99OP-29 points·10 months ago

Strongly agree.

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

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u/georgi_chowdhury1 point·10 months ago

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

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u/honest_syringe_pls127 points·10 months ago

Strongly agree.

Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 41 weeks to accept.

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