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chromatographic efficiency

  • What is chromatography?
    In chromatography: Efficiency and resolution

    …efficiency and resolution is the width of the peak. Peaks in which the maxima are widely disengaged still may be so broad that the solutes are incompletely resolved. For this reason, peak width is of major concern in chromatography.

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