mass spectrometry

English

Noun

mass spectrometry (countable and uncountable, plural mass spectrometries)

(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.

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analytical tecnique

Finnish: massaspektrometria
Hungarian: tömegspektrometria
Macedonian: масена спектрометрија f (masena spektrometrija)

Persian: طیف‌سنجی جرمی‎ (fa) (teyf-sanji jermi)
Portuguese: espectrometria de massa f
Romanian: spectrometrie de masă f

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