How to Use mass spectrometry in a Sentence

mass spectrometry

noun

• To find the answer, the researchers turned to mass spectrometry, a technique that can measure the mass of atomic isotopes.
  — Saugat Bolakhe, Quanta Magazine, 17 July 2023
• The second method may be the more familiar use of mass spectrometry in pop culture.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 27 Aug. 2021
• Rosetta sent back mass spectrometry data showing that glycine, the simplest amino acid, was present on the comet.
  — Luba Ostashevsky, Ars Technica, 26 Feb. 2018
• For the new study, Lee and co-authors used gas chromatography-mass spectrometry to do just that.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 18 Jan. 2023
• What’s more, these data sets range from state-of-the-art mass spectrometry measurements to hundred-year-old maps hand-painted on linen.
  — Josh Goldman, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Apr. 2023
• That’s where gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS to its friends) comes in.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 2 July 2019
• Extracting the proteins and examining them with a process called mass spectrometry let Kraus and her team see how old the proteins were.
  — Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 9 Oct. 2019
• Scientists can use mass spectrometry to analyze how levels vary from one year to the next.
  — Dave Levitan, Scientific American, 25 May 2020
• By running mass spectrometry on one of the site’s exigent 52 stones, the researchers were able to match its trace elements to a site in England where that rock was likely mined.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 31 July 2020
• The first element was an analysis of the nerve agent provided by mass spectrometry, a technique that sorts ions based on their mass-to-charge ratio.
  — Ellen Barry and David E. Sanger, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2018
• But for the liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry portion of the research, Longin did have to filter the beer.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 24 Aug. 2020
• Using gas chromatography and mass spectrometry, the team found a ton of the usual bad smell offenders.
  — Max G. Levy, Wired, 3 June 2021
• The process here begins with putting samples of real whiskey, wine or sake into a machine that performs a process known as gas and liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry.
  — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 20 Feb. 2020
• The Orbitrap is a tool for mass spectrometry, a go-to technique for scientists that separates molecules by their mass and measures how much of each there is in a sample.
  — Briley Lewis, Popular Science, 24 Jan. 2023
• Then the mass spectrometry machine counts up the piles—or quantifies how much of each chemical is present based on its molecular signature.
  — Betsy Ladyzhets, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2024
• Two labs also detected the proteins laminin and elastin with antibody tests, although mass spectrometry failed to turn up sequences for these proteins.
  — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 13 Sep. 2017
• Sampling all along a baleen plate with mass spectrometry reveals the isotopic markers over time, including the transition from one ocean to another.
  — Jennifer S. Holland, Smithsonian, 1 Sep. 2017
• Welker and his colleagues dissolved tiny amounts of enamel from a G. blacki molar and used mass spectrometry to identify more than 500 peptides that matched six proteins.
  — Gretchen Vogel, Science | AAAS, 13 Nov. 2019
• Some are able to check their drugs with infrared or mass spectrometry, tools traditionally used by forensic teams that are now being adopted by harm-reduction groups to test drugs.
  — Nadia Kounang, CNN, 17 Mar. 2022
• The authors tested the paintings with protein mass spectrometry: a technique that allows scientists to break a sample down into the proteins within.
  — Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 25 May 2023
• Those peptide chains—amino acids linked like Lego blocks—were then analyzed in a mass spectrometry machine and identified using protein databases.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 12 Jan. 2018
• Back in the lab, a gas chromatography-mass spectrometry machine separated all the compounds, which could then be recorded and named, resulting in an aromatic recipe of sorts.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 25 Jan. 2022
• Davis walks me by its gas chromatography mass spectrometry system, which separates out those molecules as a slab of real meat is cooking.
  — Beth Kowitt, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2017
• Rather than use electrophoresis, Righetti opted to try a more powerful technique called mass spectrometry.
  — Jo Marchant, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Nov. 2022
• These compounds could be spotted in a matter of minutes using a special type of mass spectrometry in which technicians use a piece of paper to rapidly transfer substances from a swab to an analyzer.
  — Diana Kwon, Scientific American, 11 Oct. 2022
• Using gas chromatography and mass spectrometry, the team discovered residue of oleic and linoleic acid, telltale signatures of olive oil.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 4 June 2018
• The scientists would pick up a cooler full of frozen wastewater samples, thaw them and analyze them using liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry.
  — Gene Johnson, The Seattle Times, 24 June 2019
• The scientists would pick up a cooler full of frozen wastewater samples, thaw them, and analyze them using liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry.
  — Gene Johnson, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2019
• Those proteins and molecules were then analyzed via mass spectrometry.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 21 Aug. 2023
• Curiously, the relative deadliness of winter seems to be a modern invention, like mass spectrometry and thinking about the Roman empire on a daily basis.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Oct 2024