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Using ICP-MS to Detect Inorganic Elements in Organic Materials: A New Tool to Identify Mordants or Dyes on Ancient Textiles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

Laure Dussubieux  and
Mary W. Ballard
Laure Dussubieux
Affiliation:
Smithsonian Center for Materials Research and Education, Museum Support Center, 4210 Silver Hill Road, Suitland, MD 20746, USA
Mary W. Ballard
Affiliation:
Smithsonian Center for Materials Research and Education, Museum Support Center, 4210 Silver Hill Road, Suitland, MD 20746, USA
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Abstract

The feasibility of determining metallic elements used as mordants or dyes with inorganic constituents was tested using inductively coupled plasma – mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). For this purpose, modern, historic and archaeological samples were investigated. Mordants containing copper, iron, tin, aluminium or uranium were successfully identified as well as an organic dye with a substitutional bromine.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 852 , 2004 , OO4.1
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2005

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