Starting Out Right, Part VI – The Scouting Gradient Alternative

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LCGC North AmericaMay 2000
Volume 18
Issue 05
Pages: 478–487

A scouting gradient is a separation run under a standardized set of conditions and can be used to determine the complexity of a sample and estimate the difficulty of the separation. John Dolan tells why he believes using a scouting gradient is the best way to begin method development.

LCGC 18(5), 478–487 (2000).
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