An ion with a charge of +3 is accelerated into the 1.79 m flight tube of a linear time-of-flight (TOF) mass spectrometer with an acceleration voltage of 20.0 kV. It takes the ion 74.4 us to reach the detector. What is the mass (m) of the ion?

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