Structure in X-ray absorption spectra remote from the edge and extending to higher
energies, due mainly to the
scattering of the expelled electron by neighbouring atoms. Structure closer to the absorption
edge is sometimes called near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure (
NEXAFS).
Source:
PAC, 1991, 63, 735
(Nomenclature, symbols, units and their usage in spectrochemical analysis - VIII.
Nomenclature system for X-ray spectroscopy (Recommendations 1991))
on page 738
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IUPAC. Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 2nd ed. (the "Gold Book"). Compiled by
A. D. McNaught and A. Wilkinson. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford (1997).
XML on-line corrected version: http://goldbook.iupac.org (2006-) created by M. Nic,
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