Title: transport region
Long Title: IUPAC Gold Book - transport region
DOI: 10.1351/goldbook.12603
Status: current

Definition
Region in a mass spectrometer in which an ion beam is transported from the ion source to the ion optics or from one ion optical element to the next.

Related Term
- ion optics: https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/12444

Source
- PAC, 2013, 85, 1515. 'Definitions of terms relating to mass spectrometry (IUPAC Recommendations 2013)' on page 1598 (https://doi.org/10.1351/PAC-REC-06-04-06)

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Citation: Citation: 'transport region' 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.12603
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