Gold traces to trace gold

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1199-1208

  Guerra, Maria Filomena ^a   Calligaro, Thomas ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Activation analysis; Gold; Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry; Particle induced X ray emission; Particle induced X ray emission induced X ray fluorescence; Trace elements

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL ELEMENT; GOLD; TRADE;

EID: 3042589716     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2002.05.001     Document Type: Article

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