Metallurgical and chemical characterization of copper alloy reference materials within laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry: Method development for minimally-invasive analysis of ancient bronze objects

Spectrochimica Acta - Part B Atomic Spectroscopy

Volumn 79-80, Issue , 2013, Pages 17-30

  Walaszek, Damian ^a,b   Senn, Marianne ^a   Faller, Markus ^a   Philippe, Laetitia ^a   Wagner, Barbara ^b   Bulska, Ewa ^b   Ulrich, Andrea ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Archaeometry; Bronze; Copper alloy; Laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA ICPMS); Metallurgy

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY AND PRECISION; ANALYTICAL METHOD; ANALYTICAL PROCEDURE; ANALYTICAL STRATEGY; ARCHAEOMETRY; AUTHENTICITY VERIFICATION; CALIBRATION REFERENCE MATERIALS; CHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; ELEMENTAL DISTRIBUTION; INHOMOGENEITIES; LASER-ABLATION INDUCTIVELY-COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; LINE SCAN; MAJOR ELEMENTS; METHOD DEVELOPMENT; REFERENCE MATERIAL; SCAN MODE; SEM-EDX; SPOT SIZES; X RAY SPECTROMETRY;

ABLATION; BRONZE; CALIBRATION; CHARACTERIZATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COPPER ALLOYS; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; LASER ABLATION; LASERS; METALLURGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

IMPURITIES;

EID: 84873309009     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sab.2012.11.001     Document Type: Article

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