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Re:NIST Standard Peanut Butter – $1,107 by evanb on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @03:58PM (#38017486)
You can't take a written standard and put it into your mass spectrometer (or other equivalently fancy food-testing device) to calibrate it.
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Re:NIST Standard Peanut Butter – $1,107 by Lukineus on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @04:17PM (#38017764)
You don't. You take the NIST reference material and put it through your machine and compare your machine's results with the NIST results.
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Re:NIST Standard Peanut Butter – $1,107 by evanb on Thursday October 26, 2023 @12:06AM (#38021495)
That's what I was getting at. Maybe we disagree about what calibrate means?
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