ASMS @asms.org · Jan 5

Happy #MassSpecMonday! Explain mass spectrometry badly in one sentence. We’ll start: “Yeet molecules into a vacuum and see who panics first.” Your turn 👇 #ASMS #TeamMassSpec #MassSpecCommunity

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Richard Unwin · Jan 5

Mass spectroscopy.

Jenn Campbell · Jan 5

The instrument isn’t working again.

Chris Ashwood · Jan 5

Ions go in and numbers come out. You can’t explain it.

MetaMorpheus · Jan 6

Here is a list of proteins that you won't be interested in despite having spent hours in the lab collecting and processing samples not to mention thousands of dollars. See you soon for more of same.

Jerome Moore · Jan 5

Steal a charge from a thing, then weigh it.

Matthew Russell · Jan 6

You get lines on a computer screen, and then you interpret them.

Dr. Varoon Singh · Jan 6

Zap thy molecules, trap thy soul, measure in time, and resolve in mass, following thy charge

Albert Heck · Jan 6

Is it not the more complicated form of mass spectroscopy?