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ACS INSTRUMENTAL ANALYSIS EXAM
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1.How to calculate signal to noise: S/N = mean/STDEV

-inverse of RSD
-STDEV: 5 (#STDEV gaussian curve)
-STDEV: peak-to-peak noise/5


2.S/N relationships: -increase S/N, increase run time
-decrease noise, increase S/N


3.Beer's Law:


4.Beer's Law Calculations:


5.Hard ionization vs soft ionization: -hard: no M+ peak (or small)
-soft: M+ peak is visible


6.MS: hard ionization sources: -impart high quantities of residual
energy in the subject molecule invoking large degrees of
fragmentation


7.MS: hard ionization sources examples: -electron impact

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, 8.Electron Impact (EI): -Uses electron impact to ionize a molecule
-gas phase
-energetic electrons
-possibility of over fragmentation
-hard
-most common


9.EI advantages: -good stability
-universal ionization
-reproducible spectra


10.EI disadvantages: -MW can be hard to determine
-compatible only with volatiles (GCMS)
-Hard to make negative ions


11.MS: soft ionization sources: -processes which impart little
residual energy onto the subject molecule and as such result in little
fragmentation


12.MS: soft ionization sources examples: -CI
-ESI
-MALDI


13.Chemical ionization (CI): -First ionizes a molecular gas which in
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