Secondary Ionization of Chemical Warfare Agent Simulants: Atmospheric Pressure Ion Mobility Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry

W. E. Steiner, B. H. Clowers, P. E. Haigh, and H. H. Hill

For the first time, the use of a traditional ionization source for ion mobility spectrometry (radioactive nickel (63Ni) beta emission ionization) and three alternative ionization sources (electrospray ionization (ESI), secondary electrospray ionization (SESI), and electrical discharge (corona) ionization (CI)) were employed with …