12604 IUPAC Gold Book - triple quadrupole mass spectrometer 10.1351/goldbook.12604 12604 current 1 Tandem mass spectrometer comprising two transmission quadrupole mass spectrometers in series, with a (non-selecting) RF-only quadrupole (or other multipole) between them to act as a collision cell. RF-only quadrupole https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/12560 collision cell https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/12361 transmission quadrupole mass spectrometers https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/12602 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) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/12604/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/12604/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/12604/plain Citation: 'triple quadrupole mass spectrometer' 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.12604 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-07-14T17:32:32+00:00