"ghost peak" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: ghost peaks [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} ghost peak (plural ghost peaks)
  1. (chromatography) a peak at an unexpected position (or time), due to e.g. contamination of the sample or from the previous analysis (if one of the substances had a retention time longer than the runtime)

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