Kinetic shift

IUPAC RECOMMENDATIONS 2013
Kinetic shift
Excess energy above the thermochemical threshold required to observe dissociation of a precursor ion within the timeframe of a particular mass spectrometry experiment. Note: Kinetic shifts are important when thermochemical quantities are deduced from appearance energy measurements.
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Reference(s): C. Lifshitz. Eur. J. Mass Spectrom. 8, 85 (2002). (http://dx.doi.org/10.1255/ejms.476 )
From Definitions of Terms Relating to Mass Spectrometry (IUPAC Recommendations 2013); DOI: 10.1351/PAC-REC-06-04-06 © IUPAC 2013.
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