BRAINCAKEIntegration Traces
In a 1H NMR spectrum, the area under each peak is proportional to the number of H atoms in that environment. Peak heights can be misleading, because peaks have different widths and may be split, so spectrometers draw an integration trace.
The integration trace is a line that runs across the spectrum and rises in a step over each peak. The height of each step is proportional to the area of the peak below it, and so to the number of H atoms in that environment.
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