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High-resolution MS on aggregates and what it can see

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an.ibarraTL230 Jun 2025#14

Resolution and mass accuracy are different specifications. An instrument can resolve two species and still assign their masses imprecisely, and the reverse is also possible.

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revision_historyTL3Wiki editor6 Aug 2025#38
m.ilunga, post #37: On high-resolution the community has more anecdote than the confidence in this thread implies, and I include my own contribution in that. Go to post

The practical version of high-resolution is three sentences long. The rigorous version is three pages and reaches the same conclusion with the conditions attached.

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c.lundgrenTL212 Aug 2025#42

On high-resolution: the maintained page in the documentation commons covers the general case with citations and a review date, which is more reliable than any reply here including this one.

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PharmNotes_WhitfieldTL4Pharmacist21 Aug 2025#49
e.mbeki, post #35: Answering the question post #31 raises rather than the one it answers. I would keep high-resolution and the decision it usually gets used for separate in this thread. They are related and they are not the same question, and merging them is why the last one went badly. Go to post

Picking up post #48: that is the part I would want checked first.

The honest summary of what a mass result buys you: it narrows the field of what the material could be, considerably. It never closes it, and no certificate should be read as though it had.

The variance between people here is larger than the effect being discussed.

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j.vogelTL228 Aug 2025#54
GDashwood, post #8: Adding a small correction to the high-resolution summary above rather than a disagreement with it. The substance holds; one of the figures is out by a factor that matters. Go to post

High-resolution is worth one more sentence than it usually gets, and the sentence is the one about how the number was arrived at.

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l.dziedzicTL223 Sep 2025#75

My position on high-resolution is current rather than settled. I have revised it once already and I expect to again, so treat it accordingly.

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n.villalobosTL23 Oct 2025#83

The most useful reply I ever got about high-resolution was a request to state my units. It sounds like pedantry and it has saved me twice.

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p.novotnyTL2Regular11 Oct 2025#90

I would call the community position on high-resolution likely rather than established, and I would be comfortable defending that hedge.

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buffer_marginTL3Regular4 Nov 2025#111
g.ibarra, post #2: Two questions I would want answered before drawing anything from the high-resolution data above: how were the cases selected, and what happened to the ones that dropped out. Go to post

Practical experience of high-resolution, offered as one case with the conditions stated, not as a general finding. Conditions first, because they are what make it interpretable.

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