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c/coa·submitted 1 year ago by u/nadia_fonseca

[Lab] split one vial across VendorInvestigate and PeptideMeter — 97.2% and 96.8%

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split one vial across VendorInvestigate and PeptideMeter — 97.2% and 96.8%. One vial, one service, one member paying, which is the only kind of result this board should treat as evidence. Hard numbers: 97.2% and 96.8%. Anything softer than that is flagged as an impression. Spent four months confusing area% and mass%…

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u/cormac_pereira133 points·1 year ago

Started keeping a folder of every certificate I have been sent. The ones that itemise impurities are a small group and they are mostly the same suppliers.

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u/coa_janitormod · c/coa39 points·1 year ago

This. Area percent answers "what fraction of what the detector saw was the peak I wanted", and people read it as "how much peptide is in the vial".

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u/clara_restrepo4 points·1 year ago

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

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u/nadia_fonsecaOP11 points·1 year ago

redact your own name, never the batch details

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u/blunt_coldbox299 points·1 year ago

ask for the storage condition the stability statement was written against

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u/purity_pedantanalytical7 points·1 year ago

Is water content on the document? It changes your concentration arithmetic.

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