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Trace element determination in hair by synchrotron x‐ray fluorescence analysis: application to the hair of Napoleon I
Author(s) -
Chevallier P.,
Ricordel I.,
Meyer G.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
x‐ray spectrometry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.447
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1097-4539
pISSN - 0049-8246
DOI - 10.1002/xrs.878
Subject(s) - hair analysis , arsenic , synchrotron , x ray fluorescence , trace element , fluorescence , trace (psycholinguistics) , chemistry , radiochemistry , environmental chemistry , analytical chemistry (journal) , physics , optics , medicine , linguistics , alternative medicine , philosophy , organic chemistry , pathology
Several hairs belonging to Napoleon I were analyzed through synchrotron induced x‐ray fluorescence analysis. This study revealed the presence of many toxic elements, often far above the lethal content, and with important concentration variations from one hair to another and even from one place to another in a same sample. This does not seem to favor the simple hypothesis of poisoning through arsenic ingestion. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.