The Dynamics of Peak Dispersion

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Flow of Mobile Phase Retention Time in Plate Volumes 

all the curves are describing the same chromatogram thus, by simple proportion, the ratios of the variance of each elution curve to the square of the retention (in the respective units in which the variables are defined) will all be equal. 

From the Plate Theory it has been shown that 

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