Intensity relative to base peak (in mass spectrometry)

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IUPAC RECOMMENDATIONS 2013
Intensity relative to base peak (in mass spectrometry)
intensity relative to base peak (in mass spectrometry)

relative intensity (in mass spectrometry)

Ratio of intensity of a resolved peak to the intensity of the resolved peak that has the greatest intensity (base peak). This ratio is generally measured as the normalized ratio of the heights of the respective peaks in the mass spectrum, with the height of the base peak taken as 100.

Note: Intensity is a measure of detector response and should not be used to describe the abundance of ions.
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IUPAC. Analytical Division. Compendium of Analytical Nomenclature (the Orange Book). Definitive Rules, 1979. Compiled by J. Inczdy, T. Lengyel, A. M. Ure. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford (1997). On-line corrected version: http://www.iupac.org /publications/analytical compendium (2000).

IUPAC. Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 2nd ed. (the Gold Book). Compiled by A. D. McNaught and A.Wilkinson. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford (1997). XML on-line corrected version: http://goldbook.iupac.org (2006-) created by M. Nic, J. Jirat, B. Kosata; updates compiled by A. Jenkins.

From Definitions of Terms Relating to Mass Spectrometry (IUPAC Recommendations 2013); DOI: 10.1351/PAC-REC-06-04-06 © IUPAC 2013.

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