Residual spectrum

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Residual spectrum
Mass spectrum with peaks recorded in the absence of sample and due either to small air leaks or to the presence of molecules desorbed from the walls of the introduction device, the ion source, or from vacuum pump fluids.
Related Term(s): background mass spectrum
Reference(s):
From Definitions of Terms Relating to Mass Spectrometry (IUPAC Recommendations 2013); DOI: 10.1351/PAC-REC-06-04-06 © IUPAC 2013.

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IUPAC. Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 2nd ed. (the Gold Book). Compiled by A. D. McNaught and A.Wilkinson. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford (1997).

Residual spectrum

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residual spectrum/background spectrum

Set of peaks recorded in the absence of a sample and due either to small air leaks or to the presence of molecules desorbed from the walls of the introduction device or the source, or from the pump fluid.

Source:

PAC, 1990, 62, 2167 (Glossary of atmospheric chemistry terms (Recommendations 1990)) on page 2211

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