Researchers in the US have unveiled the world’s first mass spectrometer that can measure ...

Millions of light-years away, millions of years ago, a star exploded. In this violent process, it ejected incredible amounts of mass, including carbon, nitrogen and oxygen—the building blocks of life.

An optical spectrometer is an instrument used to measure properties of light over a specific portion of the light spectrum. These devices have found a wide range of practical applications. Dispersive ...

Minimizing matrix effects in XRF spectrometry helps improve the accuracy of elemental analysis by reducing interference with ...

A very large team of researchers from around the globe has found new properties of the cosmic rays silicon, magnesium and neon using data from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer aboard the International ...

Accurate measurement of trace elements in solid materials plays a vital role across a range of disciplines—from uncovering material origins and tracking chemical processes to detecting contamination ...

Spectroscopy seems simple: split a beam of light into its constituent wavelengths with a prism or diffraction grating, and measure the intensity of each wavelength. The devil is in the details, though ...

The USC Center for Elemental Mass Spectrometry (CEMS) provides plasma-source mass spectrometry analysis and other support for investigators working in the fields of geochemistry, chemical oceanography ...

When we taught a class of first year chem/biochem majors about spectroscopy, we introduced them to it with a task. It was to dig through bins full of the things shown below (many of them 3D-printed ...