NON-DESTRUCTIVE MEASUREMENTS OF LEAD AND BARIUM IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL BONE SAMPLES USING XRF

Huang Shibin，

Ulf Nilsson，

Sören Mattsson

Nuclear Science and Techniques

Vol.2, No.1

pp.48-52

Published in print 01 Feb 1991

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The lead and barium contents in sixteen archaeological bone samples from 10 persons buried in Dalsby, Sweden, were determined by means of X- ray fluorescence analysis using two ⁵⁷Co sources for excitation and a planar Ge detector for registration of the X- rays. The lead concentrations were found to be less than 168μ g/g, and the barium concentrations were in the range of 15- 97μ g/g.

X- ray fluorescence analysisLeadBariumArchaeological bone

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