7.1.1.c. Vacuum Chamber. As helium enters the MS unit, it must be evacuated to minimize secondary collisions with the ionized analytes. Two vacuum pumps are used to accomplish this. First, a rotary vacuum pump evacuates the gases to approximately 10-2 torr. Then a molecular turbo pump reduces the pressure to 10-4 to 10-6 torr.
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