#3094: Mass Spec

XKCD comic, described below.
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[Ponytail, wearing a lab coat, is giving a balloon to Cueball. Behind Cueball, there is a ramp on the ground, a magnet hanging from the ceiling, and a target on a poster on the wall.]

Ponytail: Rub this balloon against your head, then go jump past that magnet toward the target on the wall.

[Caption below the panel:]

Before the bathroom scale was invented, the only way to weigh people was mass spectrometry.


(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)

Title text:Patients at least found it to be an improvement over Millikan's incredibly messy and unpleasant oil drop suspension procedure.


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