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.

Related terms

• mass spectrometer
• mass spectrum

Translations

analytical tecnique

• Finnish: massaspektrometria
• Hungarian: tömegspektrometria
• Macedonian: масена спектрометрија f (masena spektrometrija)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Persian: طیف‌سنجی جرمی (fa) (teyf-sanji jermi)
• Portuguese: espectrometria de massa f
• Romanian: spectrometrie de masă f