Time-of-flight mass spectrometer
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| ORANGE BOOK DEFINITION IUPAC. Analytical Division. Compendium of Analytical Nomenclature (the Orange Book). Definitive Rules, 1979 (see also Orange Book 2023) | 
| Time-of-flight mass spectrometer | 
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| Time-of-flight mass spectrometer An instrument making use of the fact that ions of different mass/charge ratio, and all with the same initial translational energy, require different times to traverse a given distance in a field-free region. | 
| IUPAC 1997 Orange Book Chapter 12 | 
| Index of Orange Book Terms | 
