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c/coa·submitted 1 months ago by u/coa_janitor

how much of what we believe about area percent actually comes from COA threads

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The title is the whole question — how much of what we believe about area percent actually comes from COA threads — but here is why I am asking. Started keeping a folder of every certificate I have been sent. The ones that itemise impurities are a small group and they are mostly the same suppliers. Water content 3.8%,…

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u/certified_referenceMOD290 points·1 months ago

Reminder: a question about a document is not an accusation about a supplier, and posts that blur the two get retitled.

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u/janek_ferrari118 points·1 months ago

LC-MS gives you identity; UV purity gives you a relative quantity. A document with the first and not the second, or the reverse, is answering half the question.

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u/coa_janitorOPmod · c/coa87 points·1 months ago

Area percent or net peptide content? They answer different questions.

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u/tove_ogunleye30 points·1 months ago

Did you ask for the batch-specific document, or is this the catalogue one?

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u/liv_nkemelu228 points·1 months ago

net peptide content and purity are two different numbers on the same vial

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u/rohan_steiner129 points·1 months ago

Same view. SSA prints the column and the gradient, which means somebody could actually reproduce the run.

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u/ismael_eriksen69 points·1 months ago

area% is not mass%, and the difference is the whole game

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