tailing
in chromatography
Asymmetry
of a
peak
such that, relative to the
baseline
, the front is steeper than the rear. In paper
chromatography
and in
thin-layer chromatography
, the distortion of a
zone
showing a diffuse region behind the zone in the direction of travel.
Source:
Orange Book, p. 96
PAC, 1993,
65
, 819
(Nomenclature for chromatography (IUPAC Recommendations 1993))
on page 837