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Instrument type:
Quadrupole-Orbitrap

Specifications:
Mass range: m/z 50-6,000
Resolution: up to 140,000 at m/z 200
Mass accuracy:  < 3 ppm (external) and < 1 ppm (internal)
Dynamic range: > 5000:1

Ion sources:
Electrospray-ionization (ESI)
Nano-electrospray-ionization (nano-ESI)

Fragmentation techniques:
Collision-induced dissociation (HCD)

Hyphenation:
UHPLC
Nano-UHPLC
TriVersa NanoMate

Main applications:
HRESIMS analysis/QC of intact peptides and proteins
Proteomics
Metabolomics
Qualitative analysis of complex samples

Personal remark:
Our instrument of choice for the analysis of complex biomolecules - providing high mass accuracy while consuming very low sample amounts.