the method development thing finally clicked for me and I want to write it down
the method development thing finally clicked for me and I want to write it down. Change my mind, genuinely — I have no stake in being right about this. Mass spectrometry answers identity. UV purity answers relative quantity under the run conditions. A document with one and not the other is answering half the…
Area percent is the integrated area of your peak over the total integrated area at one wavelength on one gradient. Change any of those and the number changes without the sample changing.
Ran a blank after a high-concentration injection and found the carryover I had been calling an impurity.
Yes. Retention time is a hypothesis about identity. Mass is the answer.
report the method or do not report the number
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.