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Relative retention time as a better inter-laboratory comparator

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m.coelhoTL29 Apr 2025#1

On the subject in the title: Relative retention time as a better inter-laboratory comparator Working notes rather than a conclusion.

What changes if the standard account of relative retention time is wrong? I ask because I have been treating it as settled and I noticed this week that I could not say why.

Working through the consequences rather than the evidence, since others here are better placed on the evidence.

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v.kirchnerTL215 Apr 2025#2

The limit of quantitation determines what the impurity table can honestly contain. Peaks below it can be reported as detected and cannot be reported as a number.

I have separated what I observed from what I concluded, which does not always happen.

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coldchain_liuTL3Regular28 Apr 2025#5

Having read the whole relative retention time thread before replying: the question in the first post has not actually been answered yet, and three of us have answered a nearby one instead.

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a.ilungaTL22 May 2025#6

Peak purity assessment using a diode-array detector checks whether a peak is spectrally homogeneous. It is a weak test and it is better than not looking.

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k.roosTL212 May 2025#9

Building on post #6 rather than restating it.

Reporting a result to more decimal places than the method's precision supports is a small dishonesty that appears everywhere. A method with a two per cent relative standard deviation does not support a figure quoted to a hundredth.

The uncertainty is in the assumption, not in the calculation.

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