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Mass Spectrometry

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    General links:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-wao0O0_qM&feature=channel_page

    eu.shimadzu.de/products/chromato/gcms/TutorialGCMS/Default.aspx?page=p1

    http://www.waters.com/waters/nav.htm...S&cid=10073244

    http://www.shsu.edu/~chm_tgc/primers/gcms.html

    spectroscopyonline.findanalyt...86/article.pdf

    http://svmsl.chem.cmu.edu/vmsl/default.htm

    http://www.prenhall.com/settle/chapters/ch31.pdf

    1. Know the similarities and differences between gas-phase ionization sources and desorption ionization sources for mass spectrometry.

      http://www.instrumentalchemistry.com/gasphase/pages/elecion.htm

      http://www.instrumentalchemistry.com/liquidphase/pages/maldi.htm

      http://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrospray_ionization

      http://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_ionization

      www.public.iastate.edu/~kamel/ci.html

    2. Understand and be able to explain electron impact ionization (EI); chemical ionization (CI); matrix assisted laser desorption (MALDI); and electrospray ionization sources for mass spectrometry.

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