Articles | Volume 15, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-1159-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-1159-2022
Research article
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07 Mar 2022
Research article |  | 07 Mar 2022

A versatile vacuum ultraviolet ion source for reduced pressure bipolar chemical ionization mass spectrometry

Martin Breitenlechner, Gordon A. Novak, J. Andrew Neuman, Andrew W. Rollins, and Patrick R. Veres

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