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Use this page to navigate the Paleoenvironmental Standard Terms (PaST) thesaurus and discover information about terms such as definitions, relations, and vocabulary hierarchies.


x-ray fluorescence spectroscopy
x-ray spectroscopy in which the sample is bombarded with X-rays or particles and the energies and intensities of the X-rays emitted due to core-to-core transitions (known as 'X-ray fluorescence') are detected (Credit: Chemical Methods Ontology).
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This page is used for exploring the WDS-Paleo controlled vocabulary for measured variables (PaST Thesaurus). A term's title and description will appear here. Terms marked as 'metaterm' are not searchable in the Variables Advanced Search, but serve to organize terms into a hierarchy.