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16 Agilent 6200 Series TOF and 6500 Series Q-TOF LC/MS System Concepts Guide

1Overview

How do different ion sources work?

The Agilent 6200 Series TOF and 6500 Series Q-TOF LC/MS

systems operate with the following interchangeable atmospheric

pressure ionization (API) sources:

• “Electrospray ionization (ESI) and Dual ESI” on page 17

• “Dual Agilent Jet Stream Electrospray Ionization (Dual AJS

ESI)” on page 21

• “Atmospheric pressure chemical ionization (APCI)” on

page 22

• “Atmospheric pressure photoionization (APPI)” on page 24

• “Multimode ionization (MMI)” on page 25

• “HPLC-Chip” on page 27

NOTE

The sources that are used are the B-type sources.