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5. Beat me to it. One can see the effects of C13 natural abundance in the mass...
Wed Feb 12, 2025, 04:15 PM
Feb 2025

...spectrometry of molecules with a molecular weight roughly around 500 amu or higher.

It comes up when one chooses the stable heavy isotope labeling of internal standards. It turns out that the higher the molecular weight is, the more heavy isotopes need to be added to distinguish the standard from the molecules for which the analysis is intended, since statistically a certain number of C13 will be naturally incorporated.

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