Some reminiscences of mass spectrometry and the Manhattan Project

1989/05/01 by A. O. Nier · 3 citations
Arts and Humanities · Chemistry · #Twentieth Century Scientific Developments #Manhattan project #Mass spectrometry #Chemistry #Accelerator mass spectrometry #Analytical Chemistry (journal) #Environmental chemistry #Chromatography #Physics #Nuclear physics

paper · doi:10.1021/ed066p385

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Abstract

The need of the petroleum industry to find better means for analyzing complex hydrocarbon mixtures and the uranium isotope separation and atomic bomb production program (known as the Manhattan Project) stimulated the design and construction of new improved mass spectrometers.

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