After completing this activity, students will be able to:
- describe the relationship between the peak height in the mass spectrum and the natural abundance of isotopes
- differentiate between average mass, isotopic mass and nominal mass; identify the appropriate use of each in the analysis of mass spectrometric data
- identify the molecular ion in the mass spectrum
- identify the base peak in the mass spectrum
Chrisi Hughey, James Madison University (hugheyca@jmu.edu)
