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General Terms

A B C

Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (remove)

Adiabatic Ionization (remove)

Accuracy (see Mass Accuracy) (remove)

Accurate Mass

Average Mass

Appearance Energy

Associative Ionization (remove)

Auto-Ionization (remove)

Atomic Mass Unit (u or Da)

Base Peak

Background Noise

Background Subtraction

Background Subtracted Mass Spectrum

Charge

Charge Deconvolution (multiply to singly charged ions)

Charge Inversion

Charge Number (z)

Charge Splitting

Chemi-Ionization (remove)

Chemical Ionization (remove)

Channeltron Detector

Charge Exchange

Charge Transfer

Charge Partitioning

Charge Stripping

Charge Inversion (types of reactions) ?

Collision(al) Activation

Chemical Noise

Collision Gas

Combined Mass Spectrometry

Crossed Electric and Magnetic Fields (remove)

Charge Exchange (Charge Transfer) Ionization (remove)

D E F

Detector

Delayed Extraction

Dissociative Ionization (remove)

Double-focusing Mass Spectrograph (remove)

Double-focusing Mass Spectrometer (remove)

Dynamic Fields Mass Spectrometer (remove)

Exact Mass

Electric Sector (remove)

Electron Affinity

Electron Capture

Electron Energy

Electron Transfer

Electron Multiplier

Fast Atom Bombardment Ionization (remove)

Field Desorption (remove)

Field Ionization (remove)

Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron (FT-ICR) Mass Spectrometer (remove)

G H I

Hybrid Mass Spectrometer (remove)

Ion Cyclotron Resonance (ICR) Mass Spectrometer (remove)

Ion Trap (remove)

Ion Aceleration

Ion Detection

Ion Gate

Ion Trapping

Ionization

Ionization Cross Section

Ion Cyclotron Ressonance

Ionization Efficiency

Ionization Energy

Hybrid Mass Spectrometry

Hyphenated Mass Spectrometry

Ion-Pair Formation (remove)

Ionic Dissociation (remove)

Ion Activation

Ion Dissociation

Isomeric Ion/Isobaric Ion (really needed?)

Ion Connectivity (sequence of atoms)

Ion Cooling (See Ion Quenching)

Ion Fragmentation (see Ion Dissociation)

Ion/Molecule Reactions

Ion Quenching

Ion-Source

Ion Structure (in MS it often means ion connectivity)

Isotope Cluster

Isotope Deconvolution

M N O

Mass/Charge Ratio (Th, never use Da, no units?. An ion of m/z or an ion at m/z?)

Magnetic Deflection (remove)

Magnetic Field (remove)

Magnetic Sector (remove)

Mass Analysis

Mass Number (m)

Mass Accuracy

Mass Error

Mass Scan

Mass Spectrograph (remove)

Mass Spectrometer

Mass Spectrometer Operating on the Linear Accelerator Principle (remove)

Mass Spectrometry (The best definition of MS when can propose)

Mass Spectrometry/mass Spectrometry MS/MS

Mass Spectrum

Molecular Mass

Monoisotopic Mass

Most Abundant Mass

MS abbreviation (correct use)

Microchannel Plate Detector - MCP

Multiple-Stage mass Spectrometry MSn

The m/z unit (Th or unitless?)

Mass Spectroscope (remove)

Mass Spectroscopy (remove)

Mattauch-Herzog Geometry (remove)

Nier-Johnson Geometry (remove)

Laser Ionization (remove)

Multi-Photon Ionization (remove)

Negative Ion Chemical Ionization (remove)

Nitrogen?????????????????????????s Rule

Nominal Mass

[[Odd-Electron Rule]

P Q R

Peaks (difference between an ion and a peak, peak intensity versus ion abundance)

Penning Ionization (remove)

Photo-Ionization (remove)

Plasma Desorption (Fission Fragment) Ionization (remove)

Pre-Ionization State (remove)

????????????????/n Radian (180???????????????/n) Magnetic Sector (remove)

Prolate Trochoidal Mass Spectrometer (remove)

Quadrupole Ion Storage Trap (Quistor) (remove)

Quadrupole Mass Analyser (remove)

S T U

Single-focusing Mass Spectrometer (remove)

Static Fields Mass Spectometer (remove)

Tandem Mass Spectrometer (remove)

Tandem Mass Spectrometry

Time-of-flight Mass Mpectrometer (remove)

Time-of-Flight

Total Ion Current

Transmission

Post-Source Decay

Proton Affinity

Proton transfer/ Proton Abstraction (types of reactions ?)

Reflectron

Spark Ionization (remove)

Surface Ionization (remove)

Thermal Ionization (remove)

Vertical Ionization (remove)

Selected (Selective) Ion Monitoring

Sensitivity

Sequential Mass Spectrometry (see Tandem MS and Multiple-stage MS)

Stevenson?????????????????????????s Rule

Radical (not to be confused with groups or substituents)

Recombination Energy

Relative Abundance

Resolution

Resolving Power

Units in Mass spectrometry (for mass (u or Da), for z +1, +2,?????????????????????? for m/z ??????????????????????)

V W X Y Z

[[X, [X + 1], [X + 2] Elements]]