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|  | Jean-Fran??????????????ois GAL??????????????
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|  | ??????????????Ion traps (ICR or QIT) are not beam instruments.
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|  | Reference to ion beams should be avoided in a general definition.
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|  | {{Sugdef|Mass Spectrometer|The mass spectrometer is an instrument with which the chemical composition of material can be analyzed. 
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|  | Mass spectrometers are considered to consist of three parts:
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|  | 1) Sample preparation & ionization: 
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|  | for bringing the analyte in gas phase and in charged state
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|  | 2) Mass analyzer: 
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|  | instrument with which the physical quantity mass/charge of charged particles is measured.
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|  | 3) Data system:
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|  | hardware and software for processing the data received from the mass analyzer. }}
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|  | : -- [[User:Kkmurray|K. Murray]] 17:03, 12 Jan 2005 (CST)
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