Adulterations in first century BC: The case of Greek silver drachmae analyzed by X-ray methods

Spectrochimica Acta - Part B Atomic Spectroscopy

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 759-765

  Constantinescu, Bogdan ^a   Sǎşianu, Alexandru ^b   Bugoi, Roxana ^a  

^a HORIA HULUBEI NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND NUCLEAR ENGINEERING   (Romania)

^b Tarii Crisurilor Museum   (Romania)

Author keywords

Adulterations; Proton induced X ray emission; Silver coins; X ray fluorescence

Indexed keywords

AMERICIUM; BRONZE; COMPOSITION; FLUORESCENCE; IMPURITIES; PROTONS; TIN; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ADULTERATIONS;

SILVER;

EID: 0345382526     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0584-8547(02)00292-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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