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Natural Science Forum / Physics / General Physics / July 2008



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Better then a mass spectrometer? Perhaps, but a lot smaller!

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Jan Panteltje - 24 Jul 2008 10:33 GMT
Better then a mass spectrometer?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/22/science/22obweig.html

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a cantilevered carbon nanotube that sways like a diving board.
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tadchem - 24 Jul 2008 23:51 GMT
> Better then a mass spectrometer?
>  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/22/science/22obweig.html
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...assuming it doesn't bounce off your diving board.

<I have spent a LOT of time doing quantitative mass spectrometry with
helium.>

Tom Davidson
Richmond, VA
 
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