Sulfated ash
The inorganic residue remaining after ignition with sulfuric acid. A measure of inorganic contamination and part of the mass balance.
Related terms
- Mass balance
- Water + counter-ion + residual + total peptide content = 100 % of cake mass. Exhaustive and mutually exclusive. The index closes it on every record where the terms exist.
see also Rule AX-R07 · Residual solvent
Where this term appears
The glossary exists to make record pages readable without a chemistry degree. Every technical term on a report resolves here.
- Assay report records — the term appears in result tables, peak tables and provenance blocks
- Method references — where the measurement behind the term is defined
- All 21 glossary terms beginning with S