reduced mobile phase velocity,
in chromatography
A term used mainly in liquid
chromatography
. It compares the mobile phase velocity with the velocity of
diffusion
into the pores of the particles (the so-called
diffusion
velocity,
):
In open-tubular
chromatography
:
Source:
PAC, 1993,
65
, 819
(Nomenclature for chromatography (IUPAC Recommendations 1993))
on page 840