Spectroscopic approaches to plant and soil sciences have provided important information
for several decades. However, many of these approaches suffered from a number of …

New generations of analytical techniques for imaging of metals are pushing hitherto
boundaries of spatial resolution and quantitative analysis in biology. Because of this, the …

Stalagmite ER78, from Grotta di Ernesto cave in NE Italy displays clear annual lamination
consistent with its shallow depth below a forest ecosystem subject to autumnal peaking of …

A three-dimensional (3D) variant of scanning micro X-ray fluorescence (XRF) is described
and evaluated at the ID18F instrument of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility …

The red pigment mercury sulfide, called cinnabar or vermilion, is well known to suffer from
an alteration giving rise to a grey, grey-white or black color at the surface of degraded works …

Metals and metalloids play fundamental roles in many physiological processes in biological
systems, but imbalance of these elements in the body may cause many diseases, such as …

The use of synchrotron radiation techniques to study cultural heritage and archaeological
materials has undergone a steep increase over the past 10–15 years. The range of …

Ancient paintings are complex materials in terms of chemical analysis because they are
usually made of organic/mineral, amorphous/crystallized, major/minor mixtures, evolving …

The possibilities of performing non-destructive elemental analysis in three dimensions on a
variety of heterogeneous materials by means of an innovative variation of the microscopic X …

Earth's deep convecting upper mantle is believed to represent a rather homogenous
geochemical reservoir of spinel or garnet lherzolite with primitive major element and …