By Anonymous on Monday, November 17, 2003 - 04:25 am:
I wasn´t able to find a definition of the unit mAU in the literature that is available to me.
It seems to be the unit for detector signals of various detector types e.g. UV or FID.
Maybe someone can tell me something about this?
Thanks a lot.
By Anonymous on Monday, November 17, 2003 - 06:56 am:
mAU = one-thousandth of an absorbance unit; absorbance unit as from UV-visible spectroscopy.
By Anonymous on Monday, November 17, 2003 - 12:08 pm:
It is the mass Absorbance Unit
By Bernd Mischke on Tuesday, November 18, 2003 - 04:06 am:
Hello anonymus,
only one remark: FID is an ionisation detector and here is NO absobance but a ionisation, normally in pA (pico-ampere = 10 exp-12A) really small unit)
If You read mAU in an FID system, someone has made a joke...
By Anonymous on Tuesday, November 18, 2003 - 06:46 am:
If feeble memory serves, if you read a Agilent GC FID file (such as copied onto floppy disk) on an Agilent HPLC Chemstation computer, the scale WILL show mAU.
By Anonymous on Monday, November 24, 2003 - 01:03 am:
ChemStation A.08.03 display "counts" for a FID signal, even if the SW was installed for a HPLC (just tried! :-))
By Marie E. Rodriguez Bracero on Tuesday, December 23, 2003 - 09:24 am:
How you define artifact? What are the characteristics of an artifact peak?
By Anonymous on Thursday, April 29, 2004 - 02:09 pm:
I am under the understanding that mAU = milli Absorbance Unit as opposed to mass Absorbance Unit