Study of archaeological ceramics by total-reflection X-ray fluorescence spectrometry: Semi-quantitative approach

Spectrochimica Acta - Part B Atomic Spectroscopy

Volumn 62, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1123-1129

  Fernandez Ruiz R ^a   Garcia Heras M ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales   (Spain)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL METALLURGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Archaeological ceramics; Compositional characterization; INAA; Size fraction; TXRF

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERIZATION; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; PARTICLE SIZE; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

ARCHAEOLOGICAL CERAMICS; CHEMICAL HOMOGENIZATION; COMPOSITIONAL CHARACTERIZATION; SIZE FRACTION; TOTAL REFLECTION X RAY FLUORESCENCE SPECTROMETRY;

CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITES;

EID: 34648858598     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sab.2007.06.015     Document Type: Article

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