i ask for the raw trace rather than the summary now, because the summary has already made the judgement calls, area percent, not mass percent
i asked a supplier for the gradient and got
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- salt_bridge — i asked a supplier for the gradient and got it, which told me more than the number did, one sample, one lab. run a blank 19:22
update as promised a certificate with a number and no chromatogram is asking you to trust the integration you cannot see, that was 2024 though
analytically speaking a broad late peak is usually something more hydrophobic than the target and it is usually small, that is a chromatography answer, not a vendor one
no axes, no reading it
you need more sample for identity than for purity. plan for that when you post it
a shoulder is unresolved, not absent. a shallower gradient will usually pull it out, integration is a judgement call
post the axes
explains two points
small point on integration a single injection is normal for a routine assay and triplicate is what you ask for when the number matters, area percent, not mass fraction
deconvolution is arithmetic
integration choices move the number by a few tenths easily. that is most of your inter-lab variance, that is a chromatography answer, not a vendor one