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Title: mass spectrometry
Post by: edwin brooke on September 16, 2012, 06:01:55 AM

Why the sample is needed to vaporize before undergoing the ionization process in mass spectrometer?
Thx

Title: Re: mass spectrometry
Post by: Arkcon on September 16, 2012, 09:13:45 AM

Lets work together, and try to figure this one out.  You ask, why vaporize, prior to ionization, for a mass spec.  Can you answer:  How may ionized liquids or solids you have seen?  Can you also answer how a mass spectrometer works?  Can it analyze a stream or liquid or a chuck of solid (or maybe a finely sifted powder?)