Mass Spectrometry

Source-derived questions

Questions extracted from the papers in this topic, excluding the curated questions above.

• What experimental setup at Rice University led Kroto, Curl, and Smalley to detect a suspicious mass spectrometer peak at sixty carbon atoms?
• What kinds of modern instruments trace their lineage back to Pregl's quantitative organic microanalysis?
• What unlikely mixture did Koichi Tanaka use to ionise biomolecules without breaking them apart?
• Why did traditional mass spectrometry destroy proteins before they could be measured?

Sources

• Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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