A measured portion divided out from a larger volume, usually so the stock is thawed only once.
An aliquot is a fraction taken from a larger sample. Reconstituted peptide is commonly divided into single-use aliquots and frozen, so that using some of the stock does not require thawing all of it.
The reason is freeze–thaw: each cycle is an opportunity for degradation and aggregation, and repeated cycles are a common explanation for a solution behaving differently weeks into its use than it did at the start.
Topic: Lab Practice
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