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c/hplc·submitted 8 months ago by u/dizzy_on_standing

reading gradient threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly

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reading gradient threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly. It is the sort of thing everyone half-believes and nobody writes down. Resolution between two peaks depends on retention, selectivity and efficiency. A shallower gradient buys retention and usually resolution, at the cost of peak width and run time. UV…

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u/honest_syringe_pls-2 points·8 months ago

Carryover from a previous high-concentration injection looks exactly like a small impurity. The blank injection is four minutes and it removes the ambiguity entirely.

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u/dizzy_on_standingOP1 point·8 months ago·edited

Bought a second-hand instrument and learned more in six months of fixing it than in three years of reading traces.

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u/nnt_nate1 point·8 months ago

Retention time shifted 0.4 minutes and I assumed the worst. It was the column temperature.

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u/dizzy_on_standingOP1 point·8 months ago

Did you run a blank between injections?

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u/dizzy_on_standingOP1 point·8 months ago

What did system suitability look like on that sequence?

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u/aksel_palacios1 point·8 months ago

Not convinced by that integration. Dropping the baseline there absorbs part of the shoulder into the main peak.

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