Advantages and disadvantages of PIXE/PIGE, XRF and EDX spectrometries applied to archaeometric characterisation of glasses

Materials Characterization

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 257-267

  Carmona, N ^a,b   Ortega Feliu, I ^c   Gomez Tubio B ^d   Villegas, M A ^a,b  

^a Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales   (Spain)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL METALLURGY   (Spain)

^c CENTRO NACIONAL DE ACELERADORES   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

EDX; Glass; Non destructive analyses; PIXE PIGE; XRF

Indexed keywords

20TH CENTURY; ANALYTICAL TOOL; ARCHAEOMETRIC; CENTRAL EUROPE; CHARACTERISATION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; COLOURING AGENTS; GLASS SURFACES; MINOR COMPONENTS; MODIFYING AGENTS; NON DESTRUCTIVE; NONDESTRUCTIVE ANALYSIS; SEVERE CORROSION; X-RAY TECHNIQUES;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CORROSION; SPECTROMETRY;

GLASS;

EID: 74449090363     PISSN: 10445803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matchar.2009.12.006     Document Type: Article

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