Talk:Mass spectrometer
From Mass Spectrometry Terms
Jean-François GAL 02-28-2004 10:15 AM ET (US)
 Ion traps (ICR or QIT) are not beam instruments. Reference to ion beams should be avoided in a general definition.
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| The mass spectrometer is an instrument with which the chemical composition of material can be analyzed.
Mass spectrometers are considered to consist of three parts: 1) Sample preparation & ionization: for bringing the analyte in gas phase and in charged state 2) Mass analyzer: instrument with which the physical quantity mass/charge of charged particles is measured. 3) Data system: hardware and software for processing the data received from the mass analyzer. |
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- -- K. Murray 17:03, 12 Jan 2005 (CST)
