08500 IUPAC Gold Book - laser induced breakdown spectroscopy 10.1351/goldbook.08500 08500 current acronym: LIBS 1 Measurement method of atomic spectroscopy that uses a focused laser beam to ablate, atomize and excite atoms from a sample surface with subsequent measurement of the generated electromagnetic radiation. atomic spectroscopy https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/08216 electromagnetic radiation https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/08242 PAC, 2021, 93, 647. 'Glossary of methods and terms used in analytical spectroscopy (IUPAC Recommendations 2019)' on page 723 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2019-0203) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/08500/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/08500/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/08500/plain Citation: 'laser induced breakdown spectroscopy' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.08500 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-07-24T21:41:43+00:00