Portable equipment for a non-destructive analysis of pre-Columbian metal artefacts from the Royal Tombs of Sipán by energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometry

X-Ray Spectrometry

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 37-46

  Cesareo, R ^a   Bustamante, A ^b   Fabian, J ^b   Calza, C ^c   Dos Anjos, M ^c   Lopes, R T ^c   Alva, W ^d   Chero, L ^d   Espinoza, M ^d   Gutierrez, R ^d   Rodriguez, R ^d   Seclen, M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL MAYOR DE SAN MARCOS   (Peru)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^d Proyecto Arqueológico Cerro Ventarrón   (Peru)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; COPPER ALLOYS; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; EXCAVATION; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; GOLD ALLOYS; SILVER; SILVER ALLOYS; X RAY DETECTORS; X RAY TUBES;

ENERGY DISPERSIVE X-RAY FLUORESCENCE; GOLD-COPPER ALLOYS; GOLD-SILVER ALLOY; METAL ARTIFACTS; NON-DESTRUCTIVE ANALYSIS; NORTH COAST; PRE-COLUMBIAN; THERMOELECTRICALLY-COOLED; X RAY FLUORESCENCE SPECTROMETRY; X-RAY DETECTOR;

FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 79551637160     PISSN: 00498246     EISSN: 10974539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/xrs.1289     Document Type: Article

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