Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 February 2011
Resonant (anomalous) x-ray scattering is used to alter the contrast between atoms nearby in the periodic table to recover local pair correlations. Both Warren-Cowley short-range order parameters and chemically specific interatomic distances are recovered from diffusely scattered x-ray intensities measured at three different x-ray energies (3λ method). Analysis of the statistical and systematic errors shows that the average values for the number and kinds of first nearest neighbors are recovered to about one atom in one hundred and their interatomic distances to about ±0.002 Å.