In dictionaries:
thermal desorption
The removal of contaminants from soil etc. by heating
field desorption
a method of ion formation used in mass spectrometry in which a high-potential electric field is applied to an emitter with a sharp surface, such as a razor blade, or more commonly, a filament from which tiny "whiskers" have formed.
Thermal desorption spectroscopy
Temperature programmed desorption is the method of observing desorbed molecules from a surface when the surface temperature is increased.
Desorption electrospray ionization
an ambient ionization technique that can be coupled to mass spectrometry for chemical analysis of samples at atmospheric conditions.
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