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ESI-MS (electrospray ionisation mass spectrometry)

An ionisation technique for LC-MS coupling that gently ionises analytes from solution at atmospheric pressure; produces molecular ion clusters and charge-state distributions that reveal molecular mass, used for dye structural identification in ink analysis.

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