Peak matching
From Mass Spectrometry Terms
| IUPAC RECOMMENDATIONS 2013 |
| Peak matching |
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| Procedure for measuring the accurate mass of an ion using scanning mass spectrometers, in which the peak corresponding to the unknown ion and that for a reference ion of known m/z are displayed alternately and caused to overlap by adjusting appropriate electric fields. |
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| Reference(s):
C. G. Hammar, G. Pettersson, P. T. Carpenter. Biomed. Mass Spectrom. 1, 397 (1974). (http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bms.1200010607 ) |
| This term is included in Definitions of Terms Relating to Mass Spectrometry (IUPAC Recommendations 2013); DOI: 10.1351/PAC-REC-06-04-06 © IUPAC 2013. |
