Ion mobility spectrometric analysis of vaporous chemical warfare agents by the instrument with corona discharge ionization ammonia dopant ambient temperature operation

Analytica Chimica Acta

Volumn 865, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 39-52

  Satoh, Takafumi ^a,b   Kishi, Shintaro ^a,b   Nagashima, Hisayuki ^a,b   Tachikawa, Masumi ^a,c   Kanamori Kataoka, Mieko ^a   Nakagawa, Takao ^d   Kitagawa, Nobuyoshi ^d   Tokita, Kenichi ^d   Yamamoto, Soichiro ^d   Seto, Yasuo ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF POLICE SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department   (Japan)

^c Technopro   (Japan)

^d S T Japan Inc   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemical warfare agents; Ion mobility spectrometry; Organic solvents; Performance evaluation; Simulants

Indexed keywords

AIR MOBILITY; AIR PURIFICATION; AMMONIA; BLOOD; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS; CHEMICAL DETECTION; CHEMICAL WARFARE; DEGRADATION; DIMERS; ELECTRIC CORONA; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ION MOBILITY SPECTROMETERS; IONIZATION; IONIZATION OF GASES; MONOMERS; NEGATIVE IONS; NITROGEN; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; POSITIVE IONS; SOLVENTS; SPECTROMETRY; TEMPERATURE;

CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS; CORONA DISCHARGE IONIZATION; DETECTION SENSITIVITY; ION MOBILITY SPECTROMETRY; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; SIMULANTS; SPECTROMETRIC ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE AND PRESSURES;

IONS;

2 CHLOROBENZYLIDENEMALONONITRILE; ALLYL ISOTHIOCYANATE; CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENT; CHLORMETHINE; LEWISITE; MERCAPTOETHANOL; METHYLPHOSPHONOTHIOIC ACID S (2 DIISOPROPYLAMINOETHYL) O ETHYL ESTER; MONOMER; NERVE GAS; ORGANIC SOLVENT; PHENACYL CHLORIDE; SARIN; SOMAN; TABUN; AMMONIA;

AIRFLOW; AMMONIA DOPING; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CHEMICAL REACTION; CORONA DISCHARGE IONIZATION; ELECTRIC FIELD; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; ION MOBILITY SPECTROMETRY; IONIZATION; MOISTURE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CHEMISTRY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; TEMPERATURE; VOLATILIZATION;

BRASSICACEAE;

AMMONIA; CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRESSURE; TEMPERATURE; VOLATILIZATION;

EID: 84930629592     PISSN: 00032670     EISSN: 18734324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2015.02.004     Document Type: Article

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