Opacifiers in late Bronze Age glasses: the use of ToF-SIMS to identify raw ingredients and production techniques, (with Duckworth, C., Rutten, F.J.M. and Nikita, K.) (original) (raw)
2012, Journal of Archaeological Science 39, 2143-2152
Time of Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (ToF-SIMS) is applied to the study of four samples of opaque glass of Late Bronze Age date. The technique is uniquely capable of identifying compositional heterogeneity at a sub-micron resolution within the crystalline opacifiers dispersed through homogeneous glass matrices. It is shown that this provides crucial information on the possible raw ingredients of the opacifying inclusions used, and has the potential for highlighting regional variations in the production technology involved in creating different colours of opaque glass.
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