Posted on 03/17/2013 2:58:54 PM PDT by neverdem
electrospray fartoid ionization mass spectrometry!
Boy, this is exciting stuff. Too bad it’s in a foreign language.
Now, when some thug gets gunned down by an armed citizen defending himself from a mugging, the media can say, “He was an aspiring mass spectrometer.”
How can you infer what the molecule is made of by preserving it? Without ionizing it?
Do you hit the molecule with different wavelength photons?
One of the great things about the Internet is that you can look stuff up from reputable sources.
"How can you infer what the molecule is made of by preserving it? Without ionizing it?
Correct. The problem is that TOO MUCH fragmentation loses needed information. You want at least SOME of the parent molecules to be intact or largely so, yet be ionized. So you have somewhat contradictory needs, and are working on balancing them.
And the bigger the molecule, the more difficult that balancing act gets.
"Do you hit the molecule with different wavelength photons?
AFAIK, that has not been used, or not widely used. Lasers HAVE been used to blast things off surfaces to get composition analysis, as with metal samples.
Cool. Thanks for explaining it to me.
Cool. The closest I got to one of them was in Physics lab and of course, the theory behind it.
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