“…XES and X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) in the laboratory require very similar instrumentation and recent years have seen a fantastic increase in the application of laboratory X-ray spectroscopy (see the review by Zimmermann et al, 2020). XES finds attractive applications for time-resolved studies at synchrotrons, free-electron lasers and using pulsed laboratory sources (Alonso-Mori et al, 2012, 2015Szlachetko et al, 2014Szlachetko et al, , 2017Abraham et al, 2019;Anwar et al, 2019;Wernet, 2019;Tu et al, 2019;Miaja-Avila et al, 2016;Smolentsev et al, 2020;Vankó et al, 2013).…”