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<term>
  <id>12411</id>
  <title>fast ion bombardment</title>
  <longtitle>IUPAC Gold Book - fast ion bombardment</longtitle>
  <doi>10.1351/goldbook.12411</doi>
  <code>12411</code>
  <status>current</status>
  <acronym><em>acronym</em>: FIB</acronym>
  <definitions>
    <item>
      <id>1</id>
      <text>Ionization of any species by the interaction of a focused beam of ions, with a translational energy of several thousand \(\pu{eV}\), with a solid or liquid sample.</text>
      <notes>
        <item>For a liquid sample, fast ion bombardment is the same as liquid secondary ionization.</item>
      </notes>
      <links>
        <item>
          <term>liquid secondary ionization</term>
          <url>https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/12469</url>
        </item>
      </links>
      <sources>
        <item>PAC, 2013, 85, 1515. 'Definitions of terms relating to mass spectrometry (IUPAC Recommendations 2013)' on page 1543 (https://doi.org/10.1351/PAC-REC-06-04-06)</item>
      </sources>
    </item>
  </definitions>
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  <citation>Citation: 'fast ion bombardment' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.12411</citation>
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  <accessed>2026-04-17T21:33:07+00:00</accessed>
</term>
