Masses in Mass Spectrometry: Balancing the Analytical Scales (PDF)

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Mass spectrometrists have been measuring masses in the ultrasmall world for the past 50 years. However, a sense of our own accomplishments does not derive from the same perspective linking ultrasmall masses to the normal-mass world.

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