Instrument: Mass Spectrometer

Instrument Short Name: Mass Spec
(http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/LAB16/)
Instrument Description:

General term for instruments used to measure the mass-to-charge ratio of ions; generally used to find the composition of a sample by generating a mass spectrum representing the masses of sample components.

PI supplied instrument name: Thermo-Fisher Element2 inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer
Dataset-specific description

Both larval and spat samples were analyzed using a Thermo-Fisher Element2 inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer with a Teledyne ATLex 300si-x 193nm Excimer laser ablation unit (LA ICP-MS). To correct for mass bias and instrument drift, National Institute of Technology Standards-certified standards (Reference Material 612, 614, and 616) were run at the beginning and end of every 4 slide sequence (~140 burns).