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A Quantitative Description of Column Efficiency Two related terms are widely used as quantitative measures of chromatographic column efficiency: 1. Plate height H 2. Plate count or number of theoretical plates N N= L H
where L is the length (usually in centimetres) of the column packing. Experimental Determination of Number of Plates in a Column N can be determined from a chromatogram by the following equation: N =16 ( tR 2 ) W
t R is the retention time of the peak W is the width of the peak (in units of time)
Skoog, West et al, Fundamentals of analytical chemistry, 8th ed, ISBN-13: 978-0-03-035523-3