One type of this technique uses three pairs of parallel plates: one for excitation, one for trapping, and onefor detection.
One type of this technique uses three pairs of parallel plates: one for excitation, one for trapping, and onefor detection. That type of this technique, which is often used with CID or IRMPD and has simultaneouslyhigh resolution, accuracy, and sensitivity, is the FTICR type. Resolution for this technique can be definedusing the 10% valley definition or full width at half maximum. A design used for another type of thistechnique incorporates a reflectron; that type is time-of-flight. In one method used in this technique, ananalyte is sprayed from a needle tip across a high potential difference. That method is ESI; anothercommon method is MALDI. For 10 points, identify this analytical technique used to measure themass-to-charge ratio of ions.
One type of this technique uses three pairs of parallel plates: one for excitation, one for trapping, and onefor detection.
mass spectrometry [or MS; or mass spectroscopy]