[Mr. K]

What is wrong is that the use of the terminology makes no sense at all, and sounds like someone who does not know what they are talking about.

I will grant that a lot could have been lost in the translation.

[Moltke]

Well, they could’ve used mass spectroscopy to determine the composition of the material, and one of the various x-ray spectroscopy methods to determine its structure. (Just for example.)

I’ve done both quite a few times, so I know it (the spectroscopy) exists and it works.

[Wonder Warthog]

"What is wrong is that the use of the terminology makes no sense at all, and sounds like someone who does not know what they are talking about."

Isn't that the very definition of "journalist"???