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Mass Spectrometry

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Mass spectrometry is an analytic method that employs ionization and mass analysis of compounds in order to determine the mass, formula and structure of the compound being analyzed. A mass analyzer is the component of the mass spectrometer that takes ionized masses and separates them based on charge to mass ratios and outputs them to the detector where they are detected and later converted to a digital output.

Thumbnail: SIMS mass spectrometer, model IMS 3f. (GNU Free Documentation Licenses; CAMECA Archives).


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