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

unpopular opinion: integration is massively overrated

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Something I noticed reading old threads that I have not seen said out loud. The advice on purity 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 answers with the…

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u/hplc_hobbyistMOD216 points·1 year ago

Removed a chain here. The rule is one line long and it is not negotiable.

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u/yara_bakken162 points·1 year ago

Mechanistically the bit that matters is LC-MS. It explains most of the early profile and a decent chunk of the outcome.

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u/two_mil_or_one112 points·1 year ago

related substances are where the story lives, not the main peak

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u/quiet_reader_9950 points·1 year ago

instrument quality is less important than analyst consistency

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u/freya_baptista200 points·1 year ago

Yeah, the chromatogram profile matters more than the headline number.

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u/ewan_tulloch50 points·1 year ago

the gradient is doing the separation work, not the column alone

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