Abstract
External-beam PIXE was used for the non-destructive analysis of early glasses unearthed from the tombs of Warring States (475-221BC) and Han Dynasty (BC206-AD220) in south China. It was found that these glasses were basically attributed to PbO-BaO-SiO 2 system and K 2O-SiO 2 system. The results from the cluster analysis showed that some glasses had exactly the same recipe. The source of the K 2O flux and the correlation between PbO and BaO are discussed. Some archeological information is revealed.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 387-392 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry |
Volume | 261 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2004 |
Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos 50272071 and 10135050) and the Intellectual Innovation Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. KJCX-N04). B. Z. gratefully acknowledges the support from the ZhongLu-Bohr Fellowship.