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significance in mass spectrometry

  • Figure 1: An electron bombardment ion source in cross section. An electron beam is drawn from the filament and accelerated across the region in which the ions are formed and toward the electron trap. An electric field produced by the repeller forces the ion beam from the source through the exit slit.
    In mass spectrometry: Vacuum

    …at about the time that high vacuum was first attained in the laboratory. High vacuum refers to a pressure low enough that the mean free path (the distance traveled between collisions) of molecules in the residual gas is greater than the dimensions of the vacuum vessel. Mass spectroscopists invariably seek…

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