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c/coa·submitted 2 years ago by u/ismael_eriksen

genuine question about certificate of analysis that I am slightly embarrassed to ask

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Something I noticed reading old threads that I have not seen said out loud. The advice on related substances in this community changed substantially around the start of last year, and nobody went back and updated the older posts. So depending on which thread the search engine hands you, you get two contradictory…

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u/purity_pedantanalytical651 points·2 years ago

the counterion is part of the mass you paid for

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u/tuva_aalto434 points·2 years ago

the batch number or it did not happen

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u/neha_erdogan292 points·2 years ago

the batch number or it did not happen

Counter-anecdote: opposite result, same dose. Which mostly tells us the variance is huge.

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u/soren_nkemelu103 points·2 years ago

axis labels included, always

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u/anecdata_annie187 points·2 years ago·edited

Water content was 3.8%, acetate was 6.2%, purity was 99%, but net peptide was only 90% of the label weight. Perfectly honest, just chemistry.

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