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SURFACE‐ENRICHMENT OF BURIED METALS
Author(s) -
HALL E. T.
Publication year - 1961
Publication title -
archaeometry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.716
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1475-4754
pISSN - 0003-813X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-4754.1961.tb00535.x
Subject(s) - leaching (pedology) , metallurgy , composition (language) , metal , geology , environmental science , mineralogy , materials science , environmental chemistry , chemistry , soil science , art , literature , soil water
“Surface‐enrichment” is a term which is now commonly used to describe the composition changes which have taken place during the life of a buried noble metal alloy. In fact “surface depletion” might be a better term, since it seems likely that it is the leaching out of the less chemically stable elements which causes the surface composition to change. However, I have kept to the more frequently used term throughout the following discussion.