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Article: Wooster gets Liquid Chromatograph Triple Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer
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- December 17, 2008
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The College of Wooster issued the following news release:
Students and faculty at The College of Wooster are making good use of a new Liquid Chromatograph Triple Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer, which separates mixtures of complex chemicals and measures them by mass. The instrument, valued at approximately $300,000, was purchased at a discount through a grant from the National Science Foundation.
On the front end, the liquid chromatograph separates compounds in a complex mixture before they enter the mass spectrometer. A triple quadrupole mass spectrometer is a type of tandem mass spectrometer that can be thought of as two mass spectrometers in series connected by a chamber, or collision cell. ...