Solvent front
The disturbance at the start of a chromatogram caused by the injection solvent. Compounds eluting within it cannot be integrated.
Related terms
- Column dead time (t₀)
- The time taken for an unretained species to traverse the column. Everything eluting at t₀ is unseparated.
see also Void volume
Where this term appears
The glossary exists to make record pages readable without a chemistry degree. Every technical term on a report resolves here.
- Assay report records — the term appears in result tables, peak tables and provenance blocks
- Method references — where the measurement behind the term is defined
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