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Ryan Rodriguez1, Craig A Taatjes2, Giovanni Meloni1,3

  • 1Department of Chemistry, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94117, USA.

Chemphyschem : a European Journal of Chemical Physics and Physical Chemistry
|January 24, 2024
PubMed

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adiabatic ionization energyalpha-pinenemultiplexed synchrotron photoionization mass spectrometryphotoionization cross sections

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