EARLY USE OF BRASS IN SILVER ALLOYS |
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| Authors: | C MORTIMER |
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| Institution: | Research Laboratory of Archaeology and Art, Oxford |
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| Abstract: | Summary. The routine analysis of twenty-two silver rings revealed that in some Roman rings brass had been added instead of pure copper. These alloys had formed corrosion products during burial, which meant that the results of surface XRF analysis had to be used with caution. Destructive analysis gave accurate interior compositions, which are used in comparisons with similar material from other authors. |
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