How the Mass Spectrometer works, Paper 1 - AQA A Level Chemistry

Learn more on www.BalesChemistry.co.uk In this episode I talk through how a mass spectrometer works, covering in detail each of the four stage; Ionisation, Acceleration, Ion Drift and Detection. This is in topic 1.1 Atomic Structure of the AQA A Level Chemistry Specification. Episode sections below... 0:00 Intro 0:32 What is a Mass Spectrometer 1:19 Ionisation 2:22 Acceleration 2:37 Ion Drift 3:09 Detection 3:56 Summary