Essentials of LC Troubleshooting, Part 4: What is Going On with the Baseline?
October 1st 2022Some liquid chromatography (LC) troubleshooting topics never get old because there are some problems that persist in the practice of LC, even as instrument technology improves over time. There are many ways for things to go wrong in an LC system that ultimately manifest as detector baselines that do not look right. Developing a short list of the likely causes of these results can help streamline our troubleshooting experience when baseline-related problems occur.