Accelerator mass spectrometry

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{{DefName|A [[mass spectrometry[[ technique in which atoms extracted from a sample are ionized, accelerated to MeV energies and separated according to their momentum, charge and energy.}}

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An ultra-sensitive technique using tandem accelerators employed mainly for the study of long-lived radioisotopes, and stable isotopes at very low abundances (10-12 - 10-15).


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