- "It's almost as if the crystals evade our attempts to investigate their properties on a quantum level. They flee from our efforts to analyze them with neutron activation, even plasma mass spectrometry."
- ―Galen Erso, speaking about a kyber crystal
Plasma mass spectrometry was a technique for analyzing substances. Around the beginning of the Imperial Era, Galactic Empire scientist Galen Walton Erso attempted to analyze a large kyber crystal by means of neutron activation and plasma mass spectrometry, yielding no results.[1]
Appearances
- Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel (and audiobook) (First mentioned)