“…The availability of advanced X-ray sources and development of improved theories have enhanced the development of experimental methodologies (Diaz-Moreno, 2012;Prešeren et al, 2001;Kurisaki et al, 2008;Chantler, 2009) particularly for structural analyses of materials using different sample types. Several particularly insightful and accurate X-ray absorption studies have been verified by developments in theory and by comparison of experimental results (Deslattes, 1959;Hughes et al, 1968;Gerward et al, 1979;Rao et al, 1981;Nathuram et al, 1988), claiming accuracy of around 1%, usually for ideal systems such as elemental metals or monoatomic solids. Further investigation by the International Union of Crystallography led to several archetypal studies of consistency and (Mica et al, 1985;Creagh & Hubbell, 1987, 1990.…”