mass spectrometry

English

Noun

mass spectrometry (countable and uncountable, plural mass spectrometries)

1. (physics, analytical chemistry) An analytical technique that measures the mass / charge ratio of the ions formed when a molecule or atom is ionized, vaporized and introduced into a vacuum. Mass spectrometry may also involve breaking molecules into fragments - thus enabling its structure to be determined.

Derived terms

• accelerator mass spectrometry
• secondary ion mass spectrometry
• time-of-flight mass spectrometry

 

Related terms

• mass spectrometer
• mass spectrum

Translations

analytical tecnique

• Finnish: massaspektrometria
• French: spectrométrie de masse f
• Hungarian: tömegspektrometria
• Macedonian: масена спектрометрија f (masena spektrometrija)
• Persian: طیف‌سنجی جرمی (fa) (teyf-sanji jermi)
• Polish: spektrometria mas f
• Portuguese: espectrometria de massa f
• Romanian: spectrometrie de masă f
• Vietnamese: phương pháp khối phổ, phương pháp phổ khối lượng