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Mass Spectrometry

Identifying molecules by measuring mass-to-charge ratio.

Connects to Lasers and Laser Physics1 Materials Science and Engineering1 Nanostructures and Nanomaterials1 Protein Structure1
Almanac A Soccer Ball Made of Soot
  • What experimental setup at Rice University led Kroto, Curl, and Smalley to detect a suspicious mass spectrometer peak at sixty carbon atoms?
Almanac Weighing a Protein Without Killing It
  • Why did traditional mass spectrometry destroy proteins before they could be measured?
  • What unlikely mixture did Koichi Tanaka use to ionise biomolecules without breaking them apart?