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

anyone else notice certificate of analysis kicking in around week 75

Discussion Cold Box ×5

Trying to settle this properly because the thread from last year went in circles.

The claim: purity matters. The counter-claim: it is measurement error. Both sides have been asserting it confidently for about 23 months without either producing anything.

What would actually settle it is 11 people measuring the same thing the same way. I have started; my numbers are below. They lean one way but not strongly enough for me to declare victory.

If you have data, post the data. If you have an opinion, flair it as an opinion.

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u/rania_okonkwo32 points·1 months ago

You have restated the marketing copy. What is the actual substance here.

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u/milos_trevino9 points·1 months ago

chromatogram or it did not happen

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u/vito_chowdhury9 points·1 months ago

Cosigning. The batch number is load-bearing information.

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u/sofia_ferreira4 points·1 months ago·edited

Cosigning.

Disagree on that part. 97.4% and 98.3% on the same vial is normal.

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u/anya_correia2 points·1 months ago·edited

This is the correct framing. The COA structure matters as much as the number.

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u/nikhil_lindqvist-20 points·1 months ago

redact your own name, not the vendor's batch details

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u/cato_achebe1 point·1 months ago

no "is this good?" without saying what the compound and claimed purity are

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u/india_generic_g1 point·1 months ago

area% is not mass%, and here is exactly why it matters

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u/stablecoin_steve1 point·1 months ago

area% is not mass%, and here is exactly why it matters

Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 14 weeks to accept.

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u/low_appetite_lisa1 point·1 months ago

Water content on the document? That affects your concentration math.

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u/neha_erdogan20 points·1 months ago

The practical rule people converge on is 28 days at fridge temperature after first puncture, and that comes from the preservative, not the peptide.

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u/soren_zamora8 points·1 months ago

Cosigning. The batch number is load-bearing information.

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u/first_hundredMOD11 points·1 months ago

Tracking number removed. It identifies both ends of a shipment.

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u/honest_syringe248 points·1 months ago

area% is not mass%, and here is exactly why it matters

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u/karma_irrelevant2 points·1 months ago

Yeah, 96.8% area is not the problem, the missing impurity breakdown is the problem.

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u/honest_syringe246 points·1 months ago·edited

area% is not mass%, and here is exactly why it matters

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u/bastian_aalto16 points·1 months ago

axis labels included, always

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u/tomas_lehtinen17 points·1 months ago

Strongly agree. Mass% and area% are answering different questions on the same document.

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