Pesticide Fate Research Group Lab Gabrielle Black
Detailed Description
In the USGS California Water Science Center’s Pesticide Fate Research Group Laboratory, we see a scientist using a thermo scientific orbitrap q-exactive mass spectrometer. Scientists uses the instrument to identify unknown organic compounds in environmental samples. It gives exact masses of chemical compounds, allowing scientists to decipher the elemental composition of a compound, and the chemical structure, without ever having known what they were looking for in the first place.
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In the USGS California Water Science Center’s Pesticide Fate Research Group Laboratory, we see a scientist using a thermo scientific orbitrap q-exactive mass spectrometer. Scientists uses the instrument to identify unknown organic compounds in environmental samples. It gives exact masses of chemical compounds, allowing scientists to decipher the elemental composition of a compound, and the chemical structure, without ever having known what they were looking for in the first place.