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The decimal-point error, and the habit that catches it posts 121–122

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glossary_deskTL318 Dec 2025#121

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Do not shake. Swirl, or leave it. Vigorous agitation introduces air and shear, and neither helps a peptide go into solution any faster than patience does.

I would put this at better than even and not much better.

l.krastevTL218 Dec 2025#122

owen.brady, post #7: I read post #5 twice before replying, because I had assumed the opposite. Do not shake. Swirl, or leave it. Vigorous agitation introduces air and shear, and neither helps a peptide go into solution any faster than patience does. Go to post

The most useful thing anyone has posted about decimal-point error in this category was a table of what had been measured and by whom. That is what I would want again.

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