Mass Spectrometry is an analytic technique used to identify unknown
chemicals or compounds, and measure known chemicals and compounds, and
explain the chemical structure and properties of chemicals or compounds.
Mass Spectrometry also is used to detect the use of steroids, Monitor
the breath of patients by anesthesiologists during surgery, Determine
the composition of molecular species found in space, Determine whether
honey is adulterated with corn syrup, Locate oil deposits by measuring
petroleum precursors in rock, Monitor fermentation processes for the
biotechnology industry, Detect dioxins in contaminated fish, Determine
gene damage from environmental causes, detect explosives at airport
security, or Establish the elemental composition of semiconductor
materials.
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Mass Spectrometry
I don't understand what Mass Spectrometry is. All the websites and books I have been looking in are too difficult to understand. Can you Give me a description of what it is and what it is used for. I need to write a three page paper on it and I don't want to plagerize, but I don't understand the concepts.
"Mass spectrometry (MS) makes use of the motion of ions in electric and magnetic fields in order to sort them according to their mass-to-charge ratios. Thus, MS is an analytic technique by which chemical substances are identified by the sorting of gaseous ions in electric and magnetic fields. The instruments used in these studies operate on the principle that moving ions may be deflected by electric and magnetic fields. A device that performs this operation and uses electrical means to detect the sorted ions is called a mass spectrometer.
MS provides qualitative and quantitative information about the atomic and molecular composition of inorganic and organic materials."
^^ That is what I don't understand and that seems to be the easy language used. That was from the HiQ.com website.
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