Is the external beam PIXE method suitable for determining ancient silver artifact fineness?

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms

Volumn 161, Issue , 2000, Pages 724-729

  Weber, G ^a   Guillaume, J ^b   Strivay, D ^a   Garnir, H P ^a   Marchal, A ^a   Martinot, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b ISIB   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; COPPER OXIDES; DISSOLUTION; SILVER ALLOYS; SILVER METALLURGY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ARCHEOMETRY; CUPELLATION; EXTERNAL BEAM PIXE METHOD; FINENESS; SILVER ARTIFACTS;

X RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 0033877942     PISSN: 0168583X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-583X(99)00948-9     Document Type: Article

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