Instrument: Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer

Acronym:
 QMS
External Identifier:
» skos:exactMatch http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CHMO_0000963
Description

A piece of apparatus that consists of an ion source, a mass-to-charge analyser, a detector and a vacuum system and is used to measure mass spectra. The detector is a quadrupole mass-to-charge analyser, which holds the ions in a stable orbit by an electric field generated by four parallel electrodes.