Analysis of grain boundaries in an embrittled ancient silver necklace

Surface and Interface Analysis

Volumn 40, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 454-457

  Vaníčková, Jaroslava ^b   Děd, Jiří ^b   Bartuška, Pavel ^a   Drahokoupil, Jan ^a   Čerňanský, Marian ^a   Lejček, Pavel ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

AES; Archaeological artefacts; SEM + EDX; Silver embrittlement; XRD

Indexed keywords

CORROSION; EMBRITTLEMENT; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ARCHAEOLOGICAL ARTEFACTS; CRYSTALLINE CORROSION; SILVER EMBRITTLEMENT;

SILVER;

EID: 42449100335     PISSN: 01422421     EISSN: 10969918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sia.2677     Document Type: Conference Paper

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