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An ion which is formed with internal energy slightly higher than the threshold for dissociation but with a lifetime long enough to allow it to exit the ion source and travel inside a mass spectrometer dissociating spontaneously before reaching the detector. | |||
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Revision as of 15:58, 17 February 2005
An ion which is formed with internal energy slightly higher than the threshold for dissociation but with a lifetime long enough to allow it to exit the ion source and travel inside a mass spectrometer dissociating spontaneously before reaching the detector.
