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c/coa·posted 1 months ago by u/teodor_lokken

does water content actually matter or is it forum lore at this point

Lab Cold Box ×9 The Quiet One ×1

Trying to get a straight answer on this: does water content actually matter or is it forum lore at this point.

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.

UV at 214nm sees the peptide bond and picks up almost everything; at 280nm you are looking at aromatics only. Which wavelength the number came from is part of the number.

Related substances itemised individually is a much stronger document than a single total, because it tells you the shape of the impurity profile rather than its size.

Corrections welcome, especially the pedantic ones. Pedantry is how this board earns its reputation.

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u/amylin_amyamylin0 points·1 months ago

Net peptide content is the fraction of the powder that is actually peptide once counterion, water and residual solvent are accounted for. A 99% pure acetate salt can still be about 85% peptide by mass.

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u/purity_pedantMOD1 point·1 months ago

Left up and flaired Explainer. This is the answer we keep linking, written properly.

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u/teodor_lokkenOP1 point·1 months ago

What does the method line actually say? Not the technique — the column and the gradient.

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u/purity_pedantanalytical1 point·1 months ago

Cosigning. The batch identifier is load-bearing, and a certificate that cannot be tied to the vial in your hand is not about your vial.

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u/ahmed_rasmussen1 point·1 months ago

axis labels included, always

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u/emeka_beaulieu115 points·1 months ago

My first certificate had a compound name, a percentage and a logo. I thought that was normal. It is not, and now I know what to ask for.

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u/camila_lindqvist32 points·1 months ago

Area percent is the peak area of your compound over the total integrated area, at one wavelength, on one gradient. It is a relative measure of what the detector saw, not a mass fraction of the vial.

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