Mercury salts have been detected in a significant number of felted hats within the collection of the Victoria and Albert (V&A) museum. The most likely source of this mercury is as the sulfate product of the salts used in the preparation of the animal hair to enhance their felting properties. Two potential groups of user—the conservator and the curator/public—have been identified as being at ris...

Sourced from the Tyrrhenian Islands and exchanged over long distances, obsidian was used widely across prehistoric Western Europe. An core bladelets a newly discovered rockshelter site in south-eastern Spain, however, raised possibility of an unrecognised mainland source obsidian. EDXRF analysis Early Magdalenian finds La Boja links them to 125km south-west. The artefacts were discarded during ...

A. Mitovski, N. Štrbac, D. Manasijević, D. Živković, Lj. Balanović, University of Belgrade, Technical Faculty in Bor, Serbia, M. Sokić, A. Daković, ITNMS, Belgrade, Serbia The paper presents the results of experimental investigation of the chalcopyrite-pyrite concentrate oxidation in the air. Characterisation of the initial sample and oxidation products was done by ICP-AES, XRD, EDXRF methods. ...

An integrated Monte Carlo-Library Least-Squares (MCLLS) System has been developed and implemented to model the complete spectral response of energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence (EDXRF) spectrometers and perform an inverse elemental analysis by an iterated Library LeastSquares method when an initial guess is provided. This software is a visualization system developed on the Borland C++ Builder ...

A sensitive method for the preconcentration and determination of trace amounts of Co, Cu and Zn by energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (EDXRF) has been developed. The method is based on the fact that 4-(2-pyridylazo)-resorcinol (PAR) loaded Dowex anion-exchange resin (PAR-resin) can effectively adsorb Co, Cu and Zn at pH 9.0 to form PAR-metal complexes. The detection limits for Co...

Street dust samples have been collected in different areas in Hong Kong associated with various levels of traffic and pedestrian flow, and the concentrations of 23 chemical elements have been determined using energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence (EDXRF). The 23 studied elements were Na, Al, Si, Cl, Ti, Ba, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, K, Ca, Ni, Cu, Zn, As, Pb, Rb, Sr, Y, Zr and Sn. A profile for average...

The aim of this work was to determine the heavy metal content of the fruiting bodies of four species of wild edible mushrooms and their respective substrates. The samples were collected from Dambovita County, Romania, at various distances from of a metal smelter, to asses the concentration of Cr, Mn, Fe, Ni, Cu, Zn, Se and Cd in the wild edible mushrooms and their substrate using Energy Dispers...