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== Operation / Background == | == Operation / Background == | ||
* Unless performing more elaborate techniques, NMR spectra are generally a squiggly line. | * Unless performing more elaborate techniques, NMR spectra are generally a squiggly line. | ||
** Y-Axis is intensity. Simple enough. | ** Y-Axis is intensity. Simple enough. If you take the area underneath a peak and add it up (integrate), you can now say something about how much of something exists and begin to quantify it. | ||
** X-Axis has quirks: | ** X-Axis has quirks: | ||
*** It technically represents the amount the frequency of whatever is being analyzed is shifted from the signal from TMS (which is used for calibration and whose single peak is considered 0). | *** It technically represents the amount the frequency of whatever is being analyzed is shifted from the signal from TMS (which is used for calibration and whose single peak is considered 0). | ||
