How to Use mass spectrometry in a Sentence

mass spectrometry

noun

• Dottin and his team used secondary ion mass spectrometry to analyze the sample.
  — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 7 Oct. 2025
• Using mass spectrometry, researchers sorted 700 groups of lipid molecules found in the blood.
  — Ashley J. Dimella, FOXNews.com, 24 Aug. 2025
• Gas chromatography and mass spectrometry were then used to identify the chemical composition of these emissions.
  — New Atlas, 23 Aug. 2025
• Each lab used the same instruments and technologies, allowing Preta’s team to sift through a standardized set of open-source mass spectrometry data to do its own analysis.
  — Susanne Rust follow, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2026
• One of the key objectives of Persephone would be to perform a direct detection of the atmosphere's composition through mass spectrometry.
  — Nola Taylor Tillman, Space.com, 12 Aug. 2025
• Musah measured the chemical profiles, called the metabolome, of insect eggs, larvae and pupae using a type of mass spectrometry—a technique that can tease apart molecules called metabolites based on their mass and charge.
  — Rohini Subrahmanyam, Scientific American, 10 Mar. 2026
• Back in the Biobot lab, analysts use mass spectrometry and other techniques to scan the filters for 16 different opioid metabolites.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 3 July 2019
• Researchers used gas chromatograph-mass spectrometry to check levels of the fatty acids EPA and DHA in each sample.
  — Sarah Garone, Health, 22 May 2026
• Modern mass spectrometry faces a sequential bottleneck because most instruments analyze molecules one by one, a process that is often too slow and insensitive to detect rare but key biological signals.
  — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 18 Mar. 2026
• Using transcriptomics and mass spectrometry, researchers found that older mice had more FTL1 in their hippocampus, the brain's memory HQ.
  — Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 2 Sep. 2025
• Each sample was then analyzed with liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS), and cafestol and kahweol levels were measured.
  — New Atlas, 2 Jan. 2026
• AiA’s expertise is testing non-traditional isotopes and analyzing elements using plasma source mass spectrometry.
  — Sarah Jones, Sourcing Journal, 18 Nov. 2025
• New use for a common tool There are existing methods for collecting information on coffee’s chemical composition, most notably liquid or gas chromatography combined with mass spectrometry.
  — ArsTechnica, 28 Apr. 2026
• The team analyzed 406 samples with organic molecules using pyrolysis gas chromatography and mass spectrometry.
  — Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 27 Nov. 2025
• Returning to the team's analysis, an isotope is an atom of a specific element that has the same number of protons but a different number of neutrons — and Dottin wanted to check the isotopic ratios of sulfur, which a secondary ion mass spectrometry can measure precisely.
  — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 13 Oct. 2025
• The team also used mass spectrometry to provide additional evidence that the microlightning the researchers observed generated the energy to drive a reaction between methane and oxygen, converting them into different compounds.
  — Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 29 Sep. 2025
• ShortStop identified 210 novel microprotein candidates, several of which were validated by mass spectrometry.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
• Characterisation confirmed the structure using mass spectrometry, NMR, UV-visible, and Raman spectroscopy.
  — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2025
• The team used laser ablation mass spectrometry (LA-MS), a technique that uses direct micro-scale sampling to provide high-precision elemental and isotope analyses of solid materials, to scan Neanderthal molars and other hominid fossils.
  — New Atlas, 17 Oct. 2025
• Researchers at Rockefeller University in the US have developed a prototype called MultiQ-IT, a device to advance mass spectrometry through massive parallelization.
  — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 18 Mar. 2026
• Scientists studied 20 common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus truncatus) that were stranded in the IRL, using Triple quadrupole tandem mass spectrometry (QqQ or TQMS).
  — Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 14 Oct. 2025