Title: Mössbauer spectrometry
Long Title: IUPAC Gold Book - Mössbauer spectrometry
DOI: 10.1351/goldbook.08736
Status: current

Definition
Measurement method in which recoil-less resonance gamma ray scattering and absorption in solids is applied to measure the nuclear environment of atoms of elements in a material.

Source
- PAC, 2021, 93, 69. 'Vocabulary of radioanalytical methods (IUPAC Recommendations 2020)' on page 87 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2019-0302)

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Citation: Citation: 'Mössbauer spectrometry' 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.08736
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