Detection of dimethylamine in the low pptv range using nitrate chemical ionization atmospheric pressure interface time-of-flight (CI-APi-TOF) mass spectrometry

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 2135-2145

  Simon, Mario ^a   Heinritzi, Martin ^a   Herzog, Stephan ^a   Leiminger, Markus ^a   Bianchi, Federico ^b,c   Praplan, Arnaud ^d   Dommen, Josef ^b   Curtius, Joachim ^a   Kurten, Andreas ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM COMPOUND; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CALIBRATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DETECTION METHOD; IONIZATION; LINEARITY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

EID: 84970027715     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-9-2135-2016     Document Type: Article

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