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c/hplc·submitted 11 months ago by u/week_four_wall

LC-MS: the version I wish someone had shown me in week 1

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Something I noticed reading old threads that I have not seen said out loud. The advice on LC-MS in this community changed substantially around the start of last year, and nobody went back and updated the older posts. So depending on which thread the search engine hands you, you get two contradictory answers with the…

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u/b12_baseline0 points·10 months ago

instrument quality is less important than analyst consistency

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u/peak_area_peteMOD1 point·10 months ago

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

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u/rina_nascimento1 point·10 months ago

chromatogram or it did not happen

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u/week_four_wallOP1 point·10 months ago

A shoulder on the main peak that 17 analysts integrated 34 different ways. Same trace, 99.2 spread.

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u/week_four_wallOP1 point·10 months ago

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

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u/week_four_wallOP1 point·10 months ago

chromatogram or it did not happen

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u/yara_bakken1 point·10 months ago

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

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u/anya_erdogan-22 points·10 months ago

instrument quality is less important than analyst consistency

Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 50 weeks to accept.

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