mass spectrometer

How to use mass spectrometer in a sentence

• Since it was founded, Ginkgo has spent nearly half a billion dollars, much of it building labs equipped with robots, gene sequencers and sophisticated lab instruments such as mass spectrometers.

  Is Ginkgo’s synthetic-biology story worth $15 billion? | Antonio Regalado | August 24, 2021 | MIT Technology Review

• Marine detectives analyze samples of suspected spills through a mass spectrometer, a relatively old technology that can identify the types of molecules in a sample by blasting it through heat and magnets.

  Decoding Marine Oil Spills Requires Slick Detective Work | MacKenzie Elmer | July 6, 2021 | Voice of San Diego

• The probe will carry a mass spectrometer, which can measure the mass of different molecules in a sample.

  NASA Is Returning to Venus, Where It’s 470°C. Will We Find Life When We Get There? | Gail Iles | June 9, 2021 | Singularity Hub 

• He crushed the rest and concentrated the tungsten, then analyzed the tungsten isotope ratios in a mass spectrometer.

  Scientists Pin Down When Earth’s Crust Cracked, Then Came to Life | Howard Lee | March 25, 2021 | Quanta Magazine

• The researchers ground the meteorites to powder, then heated the powder in a special furnace hooked up to a mass spectrometer that can detect trace amounts of different gases.

  Crushed space rocks hint at exoplanets’ early atmospheric makeup | Lisa Grossman | January 26, 2021 | Science News