06711 IUPAC Gold Book - X-ray fluorescence analysis 10.1351/goldbook.X06711 X06711 current 1 A kind of analysis based on the measurement of the energies and intensities of characteristic X-radiation emitted by a test portion during irradiation with electromagnetic radiation. characteristic X-radiation https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/C00985 irradiation https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/I03255 test portion https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/T06284 PAC, 1994, 66, 2513. 'Nomenclature for radioanalytical chemistry (IUPAC Recommendations 1994)' on page 2526 (https://doi.org/10.1351/pac199466122513) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/X06711/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/X06711/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/X06711/plain Citation: 'X-ray fluorescence analysis' 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.X06711 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. 2026-04-17T20:17:58+00:00