Nurturing Life Sciences
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#Unit 13. Methods in Biology
The second component is the time the stationary phase retains the analyte, referred to as the adjusted retention time, t’R.
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The ratio VS/VM is referred to as the volumetric phase ratio, b. Hence:
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notSelectivity or separation factor, a, which can also be viewed as simply the relative retention ratio for the two analytes:
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Chromatography columns are considered to consist of a number of adjacent zones in each of which there is sufficient space for an analyte to completely equilibrate between the two phases, Each zone is called a theoretical plate (having no N).
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Plate height is simply related to the width of the analyte peak, expressed in terms of its standard deviation s , and the distance it travelled within the column, x. Specifically