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Murad, E. and Cashion, J. (2004) Mössbauer Spectroscopy of Environmental Materials and their Industrial Utilization.

Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, Massachusetts, 417 pp. ISBN: 1 4020 7726 2. $165.00.

Department of Astronomy, Mount Holyoke College, 50 College St., South Hadley, MA, USA

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The technique of Mössbauer spectroscopy is celebrating its 50^th year since Rudolf Mössbauer’s seminal paper (1958), which subsequently yielded him the Nobel Prize in 1961. Mössbauer spectroscopy has long shared with wet chemistry the distinction of being a gold standard for determinations of Fe³⁺ and Fe²⁺ in solid materials, including a host of geological materials, especially minerals. The technology and methodology of this discipline have changed rapidly over the past two decades, including such advances as the development of the milliprobe Mössbauer (McCammon, 1994; Sobolev et al., 1999) and the development of spectrometers that can routinely acquire spectra of sample masses <2 mg (for Fe-rich samples). Many of the classic book references that describe this technique are badly out of date, and the community has managed with periodic technique descriptions in the form of various review papers.

Into this setting comes the recent book by Enver Murad and John Cashion. . . . [Full Text of this Article]