Examples of a few objects are presented, where the electron microprobe has proved that it can provide the conservator and the curator with information that will help in evaluating the authenticity of a particular art object. They will also obtain a better understanding of how an object was fabricated and what materials it was made from. The results of the analysis of paint samples, samples from...

Compositions with tie lines between the and ( ; ) phases in a ternary Re-Cr-Ni system were investigated by heat treating various ternary Re-Cr-Ni alloys at 1573K in vacuum for up to 2000 h. The microstructures of the Re-containing alloys that had been water quenched after various heat treatment for times were observed and their concentration profiles for Re, Cr, and Ni were measured using an el...

Electron-probe x-ray micro analysis (EPMA) and particle-induced x-ray emission analysis (PIXE) were performed under grazing-exit conditions. To control the exit angle (take-off angle), a new sample holder having a stepping motor was developed for grazing-exit EPMA. A carefully polished surface of a stainless-steal sample was measured. The surface of stainless steel is normally covered with a th...

A new electrochemical procedure of roughening of a copper surface was developed, producing a surface with a high Ž . surface-enhanced Raman scattering SERS activity. The surface morphology and composition was characterized by energy dispersiverwavelength dispersiverX-ray microprobe analysis and compared to the Cu electrodes roughened by the commonly used oxidation–reduction reactions. The morph...

Laser microprobe mass spectrometry (LMMS) offers a great potential for inorganic analysis and speciation as well as for organic structural characterization. This remarkable flexibility makes the results critically dependent on the experimental conditions, however, so an exact description is hard to achieve, since inaccessible local parameters are involved. The paper deals in detail with this as...

An ion microprobe ha~ been. used to observe Mg/"Mg in excess of normal values in anorthite crystals from Allende refractory mclus10ns. In one crystal, Mg excesses up to 40% above normal, correlated with AI/Mg, were. obser_ved. These ~xc~sses are many times larger than those observed by other techniques. T_he _correla~10n with Al(Mg mdicated tha_t the excess '"Mg in the Allende anorthite is unif...

The segregation of Alloy 718 ingots and the technical factors which affect the ingot homogenization practice are studied in this paper. The segregation and melting point of Alloy 7 18 ingots are studied by DTA, electron microprobe and structure analysis. The elimination of Laves phase is studied in detail. After the solution of Iaves phase the segregation elimination of Nb is reviewed further. ...