IUPAC Task Group MS Terms Second Draft

General Terms

Terms

• Accelerator Mass Spectrometry
• Accurate Mass
• Average Mass
• Appearance Energy
• Base Peak
• Cyclotron
• Dalton
• Double-focusing Mass Spectrometer
• Electron Affinity
• Electron Energy
• Electron Volt
• Exact Mass
• Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron (FT-ICR) Mass Spectrometer
• Hybrid Mass Spectrometer
• Ionization Cross Section
• Ionization Efficiency
• Ionization Energy
• Magnetic Deflection
• Magnetic Field
• Magnetic Sector
• Mass Defect
• Mass Number (m)
• Mass Spectrograph
• Mass Spectrometer
• Mass Spectrometry
• Mass Spectrometry/mass Spectrometry MS/MS
• Mass Spectrum
• Molecular Mass
• Monoisotopic Mass
• m/z
• Mass Spectroscopy
• Mattauch-Herzog Geometry
• Nier-Johnson Geometry
• Multi-Photon Ionization
• Nitrogen Rule
• Nominal Mass
• Odd-Electron Rule
• Paul Ion Trap
• Peak
• Peak Intensity
• Post-Source Decay
• Prolate Trochoidal Mass Spectrometer
• Proton Affinity
• Quistor
• Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer
• Reflectron
• Radical Ion
• Resolution (Mass)
• Resolving Power (Mass)
• Sector Mass Spectrometer
• Tandem Mass Spectrometer
• Time-of-flight Mass Spectrometer
• Transmission
• Transmission Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer
• Unified Atomic Mass Unit

Acronyms

• AC
• ADC
• AE
• AED
• AGHIS
• AMS
• amu
• AP
• AP MALDI
• APCI
• API
• APPI
• ARMS
• BIRD
• BP
• CA
• CAD
• CAR
• CDEM
• CE
• CEM
• CEMA
• CE-MS
• CF-FAB
• CI
• CID
• CIT
• CRF
• CRM
• CS
• CX
• CZE
• Da
• DAC
• DADI
• DBE
• DC
• DCI
• DCT
• DE
• DEI
• DI
• DIP
• DLI
• DMS
• DTMS
• E
• EA
• ECCI
• ECD
• EE
• EED
• EHD
• EI
• EIEIO
• EM
• EOID
• ES
• ESA
• ESI
• ESP
• eV
• FA
• FAB
• FAC
• FAIMS
• FD
• FFR
• FFT
• FI
• FIB
• FIA
• FPD
• FT-ICR
• FT-MS
• FWHM
• GC
• GC-MS
• GD-MS
• HPLC
• HR
• HRMS
• HT
• HTA
• HTS
• HV
• IC
• ICP-MS
• ICR
• IDMS
• IE
• IKES
• IMS
• IPD
• IR
• IRMPD
• IRMS
• IT
• ITD
• ITMS
• ITR
• kDa
• KER
• KERD
• LAMMA
• LC
• LCMS
• LD
• LDLPMS
• LI
• LIMA
• LIMS
• LMMS
• LOD
• LOQ
• LSIMS
• m
• m*
• m/z
• MAGIC
• MALDI
• MB
• MBMS
• MCA
• MCP
• MI
• MID
• MIKES
• MIMS
• MPD
• MPI
• MRM
• MS
• MS/MS
• MSn
• MW
• [[]]
• NBS
• NICI
• NIST
• NRMS
• NS
• OE
• PA
• PAD
• PB
• PCI
• PD
• PDMS
• PEG
• PEPICO
• PES
• PFK
• PFTBA
• PI
• PI
• PID
• PIE
• PSD
• PyMS
• Q
• QET
• QIT
• QUISTOR
• RA
• RDA
• REMPI
• RF
• RGA
• RIC
• RIMS
• RMM
• RP
• RRKM
• RSD
• RT
• SELDI
• SEND
• SFC
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• SI
• SID
• SIFDT
• SIFT
• SIM
• SIMS
• S/N
• SIR
• SORI
• SRM
• SSMS
• SWIFT
• TAC
• TAD
• TDC
• TEL
• TES
• TIC
• TIC
• TIMS
• TLF
• TLC
• TOF
• TOF-MS
• TSP
• u
• UV
• V
• XIC

Ion Formation and Reactions

Types of Ions

• Adduct Ion
• Aromatic Ion
• Anion
• Analog Ion
• Anti-Aromatic Ion
• Cation
• Cationized Molecule
• Classical Ion
• Cluster Ion
• Conventional Ion
• Diagnostic Ion
• Dimeric Ion
• Distonic Ion
• Enium Ion
• Even-Electron Ion
• Fragment Ion
• Ion
• Isotopologue Ion
• Isotopomeric Ion
• Metastable Ion
• Molecular Ion
• Negative Ion
• Non-Classical Ion
• Onium Ion
• Odd-Electron Ion
• Parent Ion
• Positive Ion
• Precursor Ion
• Principal Ion
• Product Ion
• Protonated Molecule
• Radical Ion
• Reference Ion
• Unstable Ion

Ion Formation

• Adiabatic Ionization
• Appearance Energy
• Associative Ionization
• Atmospheric Pressure Ionization
• Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Ionization
• Atmospheric Pressure Photo-ionization
• Auto-Ionization
• Charge Exchange (Charge Transfer) Ionization
• Charge Transfer Reaction
• Chemi-Ionization
• Chemical Ionization
• Delayed Extraction
• Desolvation
• Desorption/Ionization On Silicon
• Dissociative Ionization
• Electron Affinity
• Electron Energy
• Electron Ionization
• Electrospray Ionization
• Fast Atom Bombardment
• Field Desorption
• Field Ionization
• Ion-Pair Formation
• Ion Spray
• Ionic Dissociation
• Ionization Cross Section
• Ionization Efficiency
• Ionization Energy
• Laser Desorption/Ionization
• Laser Ionization
• Liquid Secondary Ionization
• Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization
• Microelectrospray
• Multi-Photon Ionization
• Nanoelectrospray
• Negative Ion Chemical Ionization
• Penning Ionization
• Photo-Ionization
• Plasma Desorption (Fission Fragment) Ionization
• Pre-Ionization State
• Proton Affinity
• Resonance-Enhanced Multiphoton Ionization
• Secondary Ionization
• Soft Ionization
• Spark Ionization
• Surface-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization
• Surface Ionization
• Thermal Ionization
• Vertical Ionization