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c/coa·submitted 7 months ago by u/sofia_ferreira

three years of related substances threads, summarised so you do not have to read them

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three years of related substances threads, summarised so you do not have to read them, and I am aware this is a minority view on this board. 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. LC-MS…

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u/bastian_moreau46 points·7 months ago

a certificate with no method line is decorative

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u/nadia_kjaer39 points·7 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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u/sofia_ferreiraOP30 points·7 months ago

post the whole document, not the headline number

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u/zeynep_zielinski17 points·7 months ago

a total of 0.4% tells you less than four named impurities adding to 0.6%

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u/wanjiru_varga7 points·7 months ago

a total of 0.4% tells you less than four named impurities adding to 0.6%

Disagree on this specific point. Two honest labs can resolve that impurity differently and report different numbers.

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u/fatima_wojcik3 points·7 months ago

batch number, date of analysis, method, individual impurities — that is the minimum set

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u/anya_moreau2 points·7 months ago

identity and quantity are two questions and most documents answer one

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