One form of this technique based off the cyclotron is FT-ICR.
One form of this technique based off the cyclotron is FT-ICR. A reflectron is a variant on a common analyzer used in this technique which works by accelerating all analyte particles to the same kinetic energy, then passing them through a drift tube to measure their time-of-flight. The first step in the tandem version of this technique often employs "soft" techniques such as field desorption. Electron impact is a simple way of prepping samples for this technique which induces (*) fragmentation. A typical graph generated by using this technique on an unbranched alkane consists of series of large peaks spaced 14 units apart with a few small peaks in between representing isotope substitution. For 10 points, name this technique in which a molecule is ionized and a detector is used to calculate its m/z, or mass-to-charge ratio.
One form of this technique based off the cyclotron is FT-ICR.
mass spectrometry [accept MS or mass spectroscopy]