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ION BEAM ANALYSIS OF COPPER AND COPPER ALLOY COINS
Author(s) -
BEAUCHESNE F.,
BARRANDON J. N.,
ALVES L.,
GIL F. B.,
GUERRA M. F.
Publication year - 1988
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.1475-4754.1988.tb00447.x
Subject(s) - copper , neutron activation analysis , ion beam analysis , alloy , materials science , ion beam , beam (structure) , proton , ion , metallurgy , radiochemistry , chemistry , nuclear physics , physics , optics , organic chemistry
In recent years ion beam techniques have become more and more important since in most cases the analysis of copper and copper alloy coins has to be non‐destructive. It is therefore of interest to study the relative advantages of several nuclear methods for a certain type of metal. The results are presented here of a comparison between three non‐destructive ion beam techniques: particle induced X‐ray emission, proton activation analysis and fast neutron activation analysis.