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c/hplc·submitted 1 year ago by u/marit_mensa

method development — 10 things I got wrong before I got it right

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method development — 10 things I got wrong before I got it right. Change my mind, genuinely — I have no stake in being right about this. Bought a second-hand instrument and learned more in six months of fixing it than in three years of reading traces. Sent the same vial to PeptideMeter and VendorInvestigate. 99.2%…

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u/camila_lindqvist82 points·1 year ago·edited

That figure cannot be quoted to two decimals off that baseline. The precision is not in the data.

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u/honest_syringe_202534 points·1 year ago

Yes. Retention time is a hypothesis about identity. Mass is the answer.

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u/teodor_szabo29 points·1 year ago

Agreed, and it is why HJ printing the column and gradient on the certificate is genuinely useful rather than decorative.

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u/insulin_syringe_ian-7 points·1 year ago

two labs, two gradients, two honest answers

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u/ewan_tulloch1 point·1 year ago

What did system suitability look like on that sequence?

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