User talk:Whishhper/Internal standard/Luckytooth Peer Review

Peer Review Response
Thank you Luckytooth for reviewing my proposed changes to the Internal Standard Wikipedia page. I appreciate the areas you identified for improvement and will be addressing your feedback in the following ways:

"Whishhper did a good job sorting and expanding the idea from the original article, hence making the article more understandable. Though, it is still somewhat jargon-heavy."

I'm glad that the article was more understandable. Clarity and organization are one of the main aspects I want to work on, so I will continue to remove jargon and have peers with and without scientific background read over new changes.

"I would add a part where I explain the principles of choosing an appropriate internal standards (like what criteria make Yttrium a good internal standards)."

I include some explanation for these principles throughout the page. However, I agree that these are not very apparent and scattered between the opening and applications sections. I will try to reorganize and build upon these ideas to make the selection of an internal standard more clear.

"I think it is hard to find a visualization for this topic, but I do have a suggestion to help with visualizing. I would retrieve 2 calibration curves, one that use internal standard, one that does not. Then I would explain how these curves illustrate an internal standard is a solution for any matrix effect or signal interference (if any)."

I am planning to add a simple example of the internal standard method to better describe the process. This example will likely be the best place to include visualization like the two calibration curves you suggested.

"One more thing, the Chem3xx lab manual states that Yttrium emission lines in ICP-OES are at 371.029nm and 360.074nm. I'm not sure if emission lines are different depending on instruments, but I would look into that."

The wavelength shown in my initial submission was based on an example provided by one of the sources I added. It was not necessarily the most optimal selection for yttrium. I will look into the wavelength selection for yttrium since I am using it as an example in the applications section. Whishhper (talk) 06:46, 13 April 2023 (UTC)