Online Spectrometry Lab Will Let Undergraduates Try Out Costly Equipment

A mass spectrometer is a complicated and expensive piece of equipment -- so complicated and so expensive, in fact, that most undergraduate chemistry students never get a chance to use one.

Now professors at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh have developed what they call a Virtual Mass Spectrometry Laboratory. It gives students who wouldn't otherwise have access to the bricks-and-mortar version of such a lab a chance to experience how the equipment works

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