Photoionization mass spectrometry has transformed analytical chemistry, enabling complex chemical analysis and celebrating a century of scientific progress.
AFTER repeated failures I have now succeeded in observing the mass rays of zirconium. Their detection is only possible under very favourable conditions with the most sensitive schumannised plates.
In Star Trek, Mr. Spock’s hand-held tricorder can instantly tell what something is made of. We don’t have tricorders yet, but we’re getting close. Portable devices just a little too big to hold in one ...