Spectroscopy-01-01-2010

Performance gaps in the industry's earliest miniature spectrometers today have been mitigated by the ongoing improvement of gratings, coatings, mirrors, and other spectrometer bench optical components.

An overview of the instrumentation used in elemental spectrochemical analysis.

The ultimate in atomic spectroscopy performance, magnetic sector inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometery (ICP-MS) instruments are used for the most demanding analyses. There is significant demand across several industries, despite the fact that the global market for such instrumentation is a niche area.

Fundamentally new manipulations of data contained in mass spectral databases and libraries are envisioned for the next generation of mass spectral libraries.

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In the previous installment of this column, David Ball introduced the five types of symmetry elements that are important in physical science. Here, he discuss why it’s called "group" theory in the first place.

ICP-MS and IDMS for crude oil analysis are explored.

Spectroscopy previews the upcoming IFPAC Annual Meeting, which will be held in Baltimore, Maryland, once again, from January 31–February 2.

Click the title above to open the Spectroscopy January 2010 regular issue, Vol 25 No 1, in an interactive PDF format.