Distinguishing between native and smelted coppers using PIXE spectrometry: a case history from early colonial America

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

Volumn 161, Issue , 2000, Pages 709-713

  Fleming, S J ^a   Swann, C P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMONY; ARSENIC; COMPOSITION; LEAD; NICKEL; SPECTROMETRY; X RAYS;

ARCHAEOMETRY; COPPER TUBE BEADS; NATIVE COPPER; PROTON INDUCED X RAY EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; SMELTED COPPER;

COPPER;

EID: 0033885274     PISSN: 0168583X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-583X(99)00946-5     Document Type: Article

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