mass spectrometer

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   spectroscope for obtaining a mass spectrum by deflecting ions into a thin slit and measuring the ion current with an electrometer

   Synonymsspectrometer

   Broaderspectroscope

   Narrowermass spectrograph

Questions about mass spectrometer

What does mass spectrometer mean?

mass spectrometer means "spectroscope for obtaining a mass spectrum by deflecting ions into a thin slit and measuring the ion current with an electrometer".

What is another word for mass spectrometer?

Close synonyms include spectrometer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mass spectrometer a common word?

mass spectrometer is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.