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Metastable Ions in a Double Focusing Mass Spectrometer

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The authors have developed a semi-automated method to identify and measure metastable transitions. The data are then automatically sorted into fragmentation pathways for the molecule under examination in the mass spectrometer.

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BARBER, M., WOLSTENHOLME, W. & JENNINGS, K. Metastable Ions in a Double Focusing Mass Spectrometer. Nature 214, 664–666 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/214664a0

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