Analytical method that ionises molecules (EI, ESI, MALDI) and separates the ions by mass-to-charge ratio (m/z) in a mass analyser (quadrupole, TOF, FT-ICR, orbitrap). Yields exact masses and fragmentation patterns — the most sensitive and…
Mass spectrometry
Related concepts
- Elementary charge (e)
- Fast Fourier transform (FFT)
- Gas chromatography (GC)
- Inductively-coupled-plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS)
- MS ionization (EI, ESI, MALDI, APCI)
- Bravais lattice
- Commutative laws (logic)
- Mass spec (Thomson 1912)
- ESI (Fenn 1989)
- MALDI (Karas-Hillenkamp 1988)
- NMR (Bloch-Purcell 1946)
- Mass spectrometry proteomics