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Trochotron

MAR 01, 1949
G. K. Werner

Several “trochotron” mass spectrometers (so called because of the trochoidal ion trajectories) have been built using an arrangement of crossed, uniform electric and magnetic fields which has a focal distance independent of the initial direction or speed of the particles.

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