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Resolving Power

Definition

m/Δm under a specified definition of peak width or separation.

Related terms

Base Peak
The most intense peak in the spectrum. By convention it is set to 100 percent relative abundance; every other peak is reported...
M/z
Mass-to-charge coordinate; the numerical ionic mass in unified atomic mass units divided by its charge number.
Mass Accuracy
Agreement between a measured mass-related value and the appropriate reference.
Molecular Ion
An ion formed from a molecule without changing its atom composition; common positive EI gives M+•.
MS/MS
Tandem mass spectrometry using successive stages of mass-related selection or analysis with an intervening process such as fragmentation.

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