Mineral preservatives in the wood of Stradivari and Guarneri

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Nagyvary, Joseph ^a   Guillemette, Renald N ^a   Spiegelman, Clifford H ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM SULFATE; BORATE SODIUM; CALCIUM FLUORIDE; CALCIUM SULFATE; MINERAL PRESERVATIVE; POTASSIUM; PRESERVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; MINERAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; MATERIAL STATE; MICROANALYSIS; MINERAL BALANCE; WOOD; WOOD ASH; X RAY SPECTROMETRY; ACOUSTICS; HISTORY; ITALY; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MUSIC; RADIATION SCATTERING; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL; X RAY;

ACER;

ACOUSTICS; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; ITALY; MATERIALS TESTING; MINERALS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MUSIC; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; WOOD; X-RAYS;

EID: 64149109081     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004245     Document Type: Article

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