Talk:Time-of-flight mass spectrometry

How to time?

So, to know time of traveling through the electric field will net you an (m/z). But how to time the flight? Sure, the moment of arrival is accompanied by collector signal. But how would the device know the moment the flights of the respective ions started? 213.171.63.227 (talk) 12:59, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

Calibrate on a known.--Nick Y. (talk) 21:50, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

"Reflectron" section broken

The reflectron section shows an error for me. There's something broken with it. I don't know enough wikipedia to fix it and would ask someone else to do it. --95.117.121.35 (talk) 20:13, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

It was a large chunk of deleted text: [1] Thanks for pointing it out. --Kkmurray (talk) 21:09, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

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