A semi-automatic system for operation of electrical detection for a spark-source mass-spectrometer.

Talanta

Institute for Atomic Research and Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50010, U.S.A.

Published: October 1972

A semi-automatic control system has been developed for a spark-source mass-spectrometer, which permits close interaction between the operator, the instrument via electrical ion-detection and a computer via time-sharing (remote terminal) facilities.

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