Drift tube
From Mass Spec Terms
| IUPAC RECOMMENDATIONS 2013 |
| Drift tube |
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| Cylindrical chamber containing a buffer gas. Ions introduced at one end are caused to move to the other end by either a flow of the buffer gas or by a uniform longitudinal electric field. |
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| Reference(s):
P. C. Price, H. S. Swofford, S. E. Buttrill. Anal. Chem. 49, 1487 (1977). (http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ac50019a010 ) |
| From Definitions of Terms Relating to Mass Spectrometry (IUPAC Recommendations 2013); DOI: 10.1351/PAC-REC-06-04-06 © IUPAC 2013. |
