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Which principle is used in mass spectrograph to estimate the mass of a charged particle​

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magnetic field
The basic principle on which mass spectrometry operates is that a stream of charged particles is deflected by a magnetic field. The amount of the deflection depends on the mass and the charge on the particles in the stream.
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