IUPAC Definitions of terms relating to mass spectrometry
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(IUPAC Recommendations 2013)*
Pure Appl. Chem., Vol. 85, No. 7, pp. 1515–1609, 2013.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1351/PAC-REC-06-04-06
https://www.iupac.org/publications/pac/pdf/2013/pdf/8507×1515.pdf
© 2013 IUPAC, Publication date (Web): 6 June 2013
Kermit K. Murray, Robert K. Boyd, Marcos N. Eberlin, John Langley, Liang Li, and Yasuhide Naito