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mass spectroscope

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of various devices that use magnetic fields, electric fields, or both to determine the masses of isotopes in a sample by producing a mass spectrum. Two types of mass spectroscopes are the mass spectrograph and the mass spectrometer.

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