Etymograph

English

sputtel

From sputter + pixel.

A compound of sputter + pixel

Middle English *sputren

English sputter

English pix ‘pictures’

English pixel

Today it means

noun A volume containing sputtered fragments of a molecule in a mass spectrometer

Sources

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