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    A spectrometer (/spɛkˈtrɒmɪtər/) is a scientific instrument used to separate and measure spectral components of a physical phenomenon. Spectrometer is...
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    Dempster and F.W. Aston in 1918 and 1919 respectively. Sector mass spectrometers known as calutrons were developed by Ernest O. Lawrence and used for...
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    An optical spectrometer (spectrophotometer, spectrograph or spectroscope) is an instrument used to measure properties of light over a specific portion...
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    visible/infrared mapping spectrometer, a composite infrared spectrometer, a cosmic dust analyzer, a radio and plasma wave experiment, a plasma spectrometer, an ultraviolet...
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    A multi-object spectrometer is a type of optical spectrometer capable of simultaneously acquiring the spectra of multiple separate objects in its field...
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    spectrum of absorption or emission of a solid, liquid, or gas. An FTIR spectrometer simultaneously collects high-resolution spectral data over a wide spectral...
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  • A helium mass spectrometer is an instrument commonly used to detect and locate small leaks. It was initially developed in the Manhattan Project during...
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    An imaging spectrometer is an instrument used in hyperspectral imaging and imaging spectroscopy to acquire a spectrally-resolved image of an object or...
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  • A laser microprobe mass spectrometer (LMMS), also laser microprobe mass analyzer (LAMMA), laser ionization mass spectrometer (LIMS), or laser ionization...
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    m/z-ratios in regular mass spectrometers. Typical tandem mass spectrometry instrumentation setups include triple quadrupole mass spectrometer (QqQ), multi-sector...
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    A gamma-ray spectrometer (GRS) is an instrument for measuring the distribution (or spectrum—see figure) of the intensity of gamma radiation versus the...
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    A prism spectrometer is an optical spectrometer which uses a dispersive prism as its dispersive element. The prism refracts light into its different colors...
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    extension for Apache web servers. An alpha particle X-ray spectrometer (APXS) is a spectrometer that analyses the chemical element composition of a sample...
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    companies. Between 2000 and 2015, an NMR spectrometer cost around 0.5–5 million USD. Modern NMR spectrometers have a very strong, large and expensive...
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    molecular ions. Ion sources are used to form ions for mass spectrometers, optical emission spectrometers, particle accelerators, ion implanters and ion engines...
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    manufacturer of mass spectrometers". The GC–MS is composed of two major building blocks: the gas chromatograph and the mass spectrometer. The gas chromatograph...
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    A triple quadrupole mass spectrometer (TQMS), is a tandem mass spectrometer consisting of two quadrupole mass analyzers in series, with a (non-mass-resolving)...
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    the UV spectrometer on the scan platform. The despun section's instruments included the camera system; the near infrared mapping spectrometer to make...
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    in most long-lived radiometric dating methods. The isotope-ratio mass spectrometer (IRMS) allows the precise measurement of mixtures of naturally occurring...
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    The nested neutron spectrometer (NNS) is a tool used for neutron spectroscopy. The NNS is used to measure the energy spectrum of neutrons in a neutron...
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    spectroscopy as well. In order to interact with the magnetic field in the spectrometer, the nucleus must have an intrinsic angular momentum and nuclear magnetic...
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    The ISOLDE Solenoidal Spectrometer (ISS) experiment is a permanent experimental setup located in the ISOLDE facility at CERN. By using an ex-MRI magnet...
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    energetic particle spectrometer (EPS) and the charged particles that come from the surface using a fast imaging plasma spectrometer (FIPS). Objectives:...
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    been considered as a way of detecting gravitational waves. A Mössbauer spectrometer is a device that performs Mössbauer spectroscopy, or a device that uses...
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  • The airborne visible/infrared imaging spectrometer (AVIRIS) is the second in a series of imaging spectrometer instruments developed at the Jet Propulsion...
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  • An electron spectrometer is a device used to perform different forms of electron spectroscopy and electron microscopy. This requires analyzing the energy...
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    four cylindrical rods, set parallel to each other. In a quadrupole mass spectrometer (QMS) the quadrupole is the mass analyzer – the component of the instrument...
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  • A hybrid mass spectrometer is a device for tandem mass spectrometry that consists of a combination of two or more m/z separation devices of different types...
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  • Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer or TES was a satellite instrument designed to measure the state of the earth's troposphere. TES was a high-resolution...
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  • An infrared interferometer spectrometer and radiometer (IRIS) is a scientific instrument of the Voyager space probes which enables the measurement of three...
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