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70 Understanding Your Agilent ChemStation

4 Integration

What Does Integration Do?

When a signal is integrated, the software:

• identifies a start and an end time for each peak and marks these points

with vertical tick marks,

• finds the apex of each peak; that is, the retention/migration time,

• constructs a baseline, and

• calculates the area, height and peak width for each peak.

This process is controlled by parameters called integration events.