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c/hplc·submitted 1 months ago by u/canada_coverage

someone explain LC-MS to me like I have not read a paper in years

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Posting this because I searched for it and got nothing useful. Setup: 0.5mg, week 62, constipation present but not ruining anything. I changed exactly one variable — gradient — and tracked it for 15 weeks. Result: a difference, but a small one, and well inside what I would call noise if someone else posted it. So I…

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u/phase_two_pete24 points·1 months ago

instrument quality is less important than analyst consistency

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u/ravi_bergstrom11 points·1 months ago

The related substances profile is way more interesting than the main peak %. A 98% with 13 peaks is different from a 98% that is one 39% impurity.

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u/peak_area_peteanalytical16 points·1 months ago

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

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[deleted]5 points·1 months ago

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u/hana_lehtinen4 points·1 months ago

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

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u/chain_confirm_cpayments0 points·1 months ago

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

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u/dizzy_on_standing11 points·1 months ago

Sceptical. If this were true we would see it reflected in the data and we do not.

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u/quiet_reader_990 points·1 months ago

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

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u/kofi_ferreira0 points·1 months ago

What was the column and what gradient?

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u/ignacio_vanhecke7 points·1 months ago

instrument quality is less important than analyst consistency

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