Preferred Label : ion/neutral species reaction;
Detailed label : ion/neutral species reaction in mass spectrometry;
IUPAC definition : A process wherein a charged species interacts with a neutral reactant to produce either
chemically different species or changes in the internal energy of one or both of the
reactants. The contrasting expression ion/neutral reaction is not ideal, simply because
the word neutral is not a noun. However, any alternatives such as ion/neutral species
reaction are so clumsy as to mitigate against their general acceptance;
Origin ID : I03226;
See also
A process wherein a charged species interacts with a neutral reactant to produce either
chemically different species or changes in the internal energy of one or both of the
reactants. The contrasting expression ion/neutral reaction is not ideal, simply because
the word neutral is not a noun. However, any alternatives such as ion/neutral species
reaction are so clumsy as to mitigate against their general acceptance
