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Photonics Dictionary

mass spectroscope

An instrument that uses electromagnetic fields to sort out the relative masses of atoms and molecules.The same way an optical spectroscope uses a prism to separate light into its various wavelengths, mass spectroscopes uses a magnetic field to sort out atoms and molecules according to their various masses.
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