Mass Update

In this 1948 photo, a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) staff member operates an early mass spectrometer. Today, the NIST mass spectral library is possibly the world’s most widely-used database of mass spectra used to identify unknown organic compounds. NIST released a major update to that library on June 6, 2017. Find out more at: http://tas.txp.to/0617/iom

Credit: NIST

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