How to Use spectrometer in a Sentence

spectrometer

noun
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  • The first step was to choose the scintillator at the heart of the spectrometer.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 22 June 2022
  • Equipped with cameras and two spectrometers, the rover would have explored the surface of the moon and sent a wealth of data back to Earth.
    — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 6 Sep. 2019
  • It will be mounted on the end of the rover's 7-foot robotic arm, along with a laser, camera and spectrometers.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 25 June 2019
  • Once the necessary time has passed, the samples are ready for the mass spectrometer.
    — Patricia Callahan, chicagotribune.com, 12 Dec. 2017
  • But just to be sure, the team analyzed samples from all of these places with the mass spectrometer.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 29 July 2023
  • Once in the air, the atoms passed through a mass spectrometer that could detect their mass and thus their identity.
    — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The spectrometer was never meant for hands-on repairs like this and was designed to last just three years.
    — Marcia Dunn, orlandosentinel.com, 2 Dec. 2019
  • The study also required new methods to extract steroids from the tusk dentin with a mass spectrometer.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 3 May 2023
  • The pen released a droplet of solvent onto the sample’s surface and then sucked it back into the pen, through the tube and into the mass spectrometer.
    — Jen Monnier, Scientific American, 17 May 2021
  • With a suite of spectrometers, drills, and cameras, Dragonfly would split its mission between science in the air and on the ground.
    — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 20 Dec. 2017
  • The MasSpec device looks like a swollen gray ballpoint pen with a thin tube snaking out one end that connects it to a mass spectrometer and a supply of solvent.
    — Jen Monnier, Scientific American, 17 May 2021
  • Among the four types of organic aerosols identified by the mass spectrometer, one was found mainly in the classroom.
    — Karen Kaplan, latimes.com, 9 May 2018
  • The spectrometer was able to measure tiny shifts in starlight from Copernicus as Janssen moved between our planet and the star — like when the moon blocks the sun during a solar eclipse.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 8 Dec. 2022
  • The spectrometer breaks apart the molecules of organic compounds and sorts them by size.
    — Katie Jennings, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2022
  • The team behind the spectrometer sent an experiment to the rover over the weekend to determine if this is due to a spike, which would appear as a transient plume.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 24 June 2019
  • And the Pragyan rover’s two spectrometers would have revealed the composition of lunar regolith, or soil, across the rover’s traverse.
    — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 6 Sep. 2019
  • Then one of Halden’s students would pick the samples up and bring them back to the lab, where they’d be filtered and run through the spectrometer, which would tell them exactly which opioids were in each one, and how much.
    — Megan Molteni, STAT, 17 June 2021
  • One type of blood test uses an instrument called a mass spectrometer to measure the ratio of two types of beta amyloid in blood.
    — Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 21 July 2021
  • While the mass spectrometer isn’t new, Wing, Redmond and Verbeck have patented the process by which the breath is collected, known as the pre-concentrator stage.
    — Katie Jennings, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2022
  • At least four spacewalks are needed to fix the spectrometer, on the hunt for elusive dark matter and antimatter for 8 ½ years.
    — Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2019
  • The chemicals used in a bomb are analyzed with gas chromatographs and mass spectrometers.
    — Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 25 Oct. 2018
  • Tweaks to Claire’s spectrometer and optics will make Iris more sensitive.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
  • The L'Ralph instrument—yes, that's its name—is comprised of an infrared spectrometer and a color imager.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 6 Aug. 2020
  • The team could measure this aboard the aircraft with a device called a mass spectrometer, which calculates molecular weight.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 3 Nov. 2020
  • Last month, Morgan and Parmitano installed new coolant pumps on the spectrometer.
    — Time, 25 Jan. 2020
  • The tunable laser spectrometer aboad the rover found the largest amount of methane ever measured during mession — about 21 parts per billion units per volume.
    — Martin Finucane, BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2019
  • The astronauts need to connect four new pumps to the spectrometer, which is crippled without proper cooling.
    — Marcia Dunn, orlandosentinel.com, 2 Dec. 2019
  • The other cubesats will study lunar ice with a spectrometer, image the moon and the spacecraft, test airbags in a lunar crash landing, and probe other research questions.
    — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Aug. 2022
  • This is enabled by the first-ever blood analysis infrared spectrometer for home use.
    — John Koetsier, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2022
  • The spectrometer flew up on space shuttle Endeavour’s last mission in 2011.
    — Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2019

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