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Techniques & Tools Mass Spectrometry

Musings on a Missing Mass Spectrometer Vacuum

An analytical take on absence

Jinny Jeffery | | Quick Read

Credit: Jinny Jeffery, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth, United Kingdom.

Nothing exists in a vacuum,

but without it,

Nothing reaches the detector

and when it’s not there,

Nothing fills the space like

a new vacuum pump.

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Techniques & Tools Mass Spectrometry

About the Author

Jinny Jeffery

Clinical Scientist at Derriford Hospital, Plymouth, United Kingdom.

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