From microextraction to mass spectrometry (VIDEO)

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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ORNL’s system extracts a solid from a swipe, ionizes it with a plasma torch and measures the mass-to-charge ratio of its ions with a mass spectrometer.

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Jaimee Janiga and Michelle Lehman/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy

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