Blackbody infrared radiative dissociation
From Mass Spec Terms
| IUPAC RECOMMENDATIONS 2013 |
| Blackbody infrared radiative dissociation (BIRD) |
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| Special case of infrared multiphoton dissociation wherein excitation of the reactant ion is caused by absorption of infrared photons radiating from heated blackbody surroundings, which are usually the walls of a vacuum chamber. |
| Related Term(s): infrared multiphoton dissociation |
| Reference(s):
R. C. Dunbar. Mass Spectrom. Rev. 23, 127 (2004). (http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mas.10074 ) |
| From Definitions of Terms Relating to Mass Spectrometry (IUPAC Recommendations 2013); DOI: 10.1351/PAC-REC-06-04-06 © IUPAC 2013. |
