Overload Due to Excess Sample Mass

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The problem is made more difficult because these different dispersion processes are interactive and the extent to which one process affects the peak shape is modified by the presence of another. It follows if the processes that causes dispersion in mass overload are not random, but interactive, the normal procedures for mathematically analyzing peak dispersion can not be applied. These complex interacting effects can, however, be demonstrated experimentally, if not by rigorous theoretical treatment, and examples of mass overload were included in the work of Scott and Kucera [1]. The authors employed the same chromatographic system that they used to examine volume overload, but they employed two mobile phases of different polarity. In the first experiments, the mobile phase n-heptane was used and the sample volume was kept constant at 200 pi. The masses of naphthalene and anthracene were kept 

The front and back of the peaks were measured at the points of inflection 

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