Fast atom bombardment ionization

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DRAFT DEFINITION (not included in submitted document)
Fast atom bombardment ionization

The ionization of any species by the interaction of a focused beam of neutral atoms having a translational energy of several thousand eV with a sample that is typically dissolved in a solvent matrix. See also secondary ionization.

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ORANGE BOOK DEFINITION
Fast atom bombardment ionization

This term refers to the ionization of any species by causing interaction of the sample (which may be dissolved in a solvent matrix) and a beam of neutral atoms having a high translational energy. (See also Secondary Ionization).

IUPAC Orange Book Chapter 12


GOLD BOOK DEFINITION
Fast atom bombardment ionization

fast-atom bombardment (FAB) mass spectroscopy

http://goldbook.iupac.org/F02328.html

A method in which ions are produced in a mass spectrometer from non-volatile or thermally fragile organic molecules by bombarding the compound in the condensed phase with energy-rich neutral particles.

Source: PAC, 1994, 66, 1077 (Glossary of terms used in physical organic chemistry (IUPAC Recommendations 1994)) on page 1115

IUPAC Gold Book

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