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Lower abundance counts yet sensitivity the same

Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2012 7:16 pm
by MSCHemist
I am running a method on the GC/MS and comparing it back 4 months. At the lowest calibration I see that my peak heights are 5-10 fold lower but the signal to noise for the peak and everything is the same. It looks like the whole chromatogram was shrunken down by 5-10 fold including the noise level in terms of abundance counts. I compared the tunes from now and back then and there is no significant differnce.

Any idea what could cause it?

Re: Lower abundance counts yet sensitivity the same

Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 9:18 am
by Pepter
Your EMV on the same lvl ?

Re: Lower abundance counts yet sensitivity the same

Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 2:59 pm
by MSCHemist
Yep the emvolts have been in the 1800's and 1900's for several months. The method uses the atune.