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November 9th, 2009 
16:18 - "air"
Science
I have just read what is an excellent paper overall (so I won't name it or the authors, since I'm making fun of a tiny part of it here), and noticed in the methods section their list of the settings used for collision-induced dissociation in their mass spectrometer. The list includes the notation "atmospheric gases." Atmospheric gases? Perhaps that's more commonly known as "air." There is nothing wrong with using air as your collision gas, I've done so in related work and it's as good as anything else you might use, not to mention inexpensive. No, what I have a problem with is using sixteen letters in two words to say "air."
beigeland
OK, in the vein of some things I've been saying:

Frazz )
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