“…In addition, the valence state of Cr cations can be deduced from the energy shift of the absorption edge or from the pre-edge absorption features (Arčon et al, 1998;Pantelouris et al, 2004). From the spectra of the Cr 2 O 3 , Ca 10 Cr 6 O 25 and CaCrO 4 reference samples which display III, V and VI chromium oxidation states respectively, we found Cr K-edge shifts of about 3 eV per valence state, while the shift of the tetrahedral pre-edge resonance (in Ca 10 Cr 6 O 25 and CaCrO 4 ) was 1.2 eV per valence state, in agreement with previous observations (Arčon et al, 1998;Wong et al, 1984). The XANES spectra of CrO 4 2À with added HAs exhibited identical Cr K-edge profiles as that of CrO 4 2À without HAs.…”