Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Activities Facet
3. Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name)
4. [processes and techniques by specific type]
5. analysis and testing techniques
6. spectroscopy

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Scope note:

A spectoscopic technique which employs the Mössbauer effect. After the recoil-free absorption of a beam of Gamma radiation by a solid sample, spectroscopy detects minute changes in the nuclear environment of atoms investigated. In archaeology and conservation contexts, the technique is of special use in studying crystalline structure in iron artifacts, and iron-bearing phases of pottery.