Mass spectrometry is a particularly powerful scientific technique because it can be
successfully applied even if you have only a tiny quantity available for analysis—as little as
10-12 g, 10-15 moles for a compound of mass 1000 Daltons(Da). Compounds can be identified
through mass spectrometry at very low concentrations (one part in 1012) in chemically
complex mixtures. The basic mass spectrometry processes of instrumentation are consisted
of (1) introduction of sample; a sample which can be a solid, liquid, or vapor is loaded onto
a mass spectrometry device and is vaporized, (2) ionization; sample components are ionized
by one of several available methods to create ions, (3) analyzer sorting; the ions are sorted in