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chromatographic detection

  • What is chromatography?
    In chromatography: Detector characteristics

    The dead-band is that region of the signal in which the system does not respond to small changes in the amount of solute; there is “slack” in the system. Such imprecision becomes insignificant, however, if sample injection is not instantaneous. The injected sample must not reside…

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