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The Agilent 5973Network Mass Selective Detector (Figure 1) is optimized to identify trace compounds in complex sample matrices. The mass range is 1.6 – 800 amu in 0.1 amu steps. The scan rate is up to 5200 amu/sec with 0.1 amu step size and there are eight sampling rates possible. The mass axis stability is +/- 0.15 amu over twelve hours. Agilent Chemstation software is used and has data analysis capability. Up to 50 groups of masses, with 30 masses per group, may be switched automatically within an analysis by time-programming.
Figure 1: The Agilent 5973Network Mass Selective Detector is optimized to identify trace compounds in complex sample matrices. This mass spectrometer is a detector that ionizes the sample once it has passed through a gas chromatography column (GC-MS). The ions produced by each compound, combined with the abundance of these ions provides a means to positively identify the components of a sample. MS can also be used to identify trace components of a sample by targeting only ions produced by the desired compound. It is a very powerful tool for trace analysis. At CAMMP, the MS is used in concert with an Agilent 6890 Series GC to identify compounds. |
