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X-ray absorption spectroscopy and its application in biological, agricultural and environmental research

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X-ray absorption spectroscopy is aspectroscopic in situ technique whichcombines the high penetration strength inherentto X-rays with the advantages of local probetechniques, such as no need for long rangeorder and the ability to obtain information onselected sites of a given sample only.Consequently, this technique is applicable to abroad variety of scientific questions,including many applications in biological,agricultural and environmental sciences. Thefirst part of this review provides anintroduction to the method, whose applicationto a broad variety of problems is discussed indetail, especially XAS of sulfur in biologicalsystems. In the second part new ideas forfurther experiments using this versatile methodare presented.

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Prange, A., Modrow, H. X-ray absorption spectroscopy and its application in biological, agricultural and environmental research. Re/Views in Environmental Science and Bio/Technology 1, 259–276 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1023281303220

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