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s0rceyesterday at 7:06 PM1 replyview on HN

Siloxanes contaminate everything. We routinely see them on various surfaces when doing X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy.


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isoprophlexyesterday at 7:17 PM

Indeed. "Grease peaks" we called them, they were always there in basically all NMR or MS spectra I took as an organic chemist. Like PFAS or microplastics, you just can't get rid of them.

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