Mass Spectrometry of Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds: Tools  Techniques  Tips (Inorganic Chemistry: A Textbook Series)
Publisher: Wiley
Published: April 8, 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780470850152
First sentence: A mass spectrometer is an instrument for generating gas-phase ions, separating them according to their mass-to-charge ratio using electric fields (sometimes magnetic fields as well) in an evacuated volume, and counting the number of ions.