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I assume you are referring to Retention Factor and have been doing some chromatography. There's a few things that could take the initials RF so if you mean something else, just ask again with more specifics.

That said, there are no units to retention factor. It's a ratio. Pure ratios should never have units.

We can see this with a little mathematical proof.

rf value is calculated by dividing the distance your solvent travelled to the distance your compound travelled (always this way round. You should always get an answer between 0 and 1. if you don't, you've done it wrong).

So it's like saying cm/cm, which we can see works out unitless.

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