Recovery and identification of organic residues from metal corrosion

Thesis

This research demonstrates the potential of archaeological copper corrosion for organic residue analysis. In archaeology, analysis of metal corrosion has traditionally been limited to the identification of inorganic compounds, thought to result from the interaction of the metal object with the deposition environment. For the first time a range of analytical techniques are used to analyse archaeological copper corrosion, many from Pompeii vessels, revealing the different types of informatio...

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Authors: Carvalho, LC

• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: proteomics; IC-MS; copper-organic complexes; thermal sample probe; X-ray diffraction; metal corrosion; X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy; infrared spectroscopy; organic residue analysis; mass spectrometry; archaeological copper corrosion; GC-MS
• Subjects: Biomolecular archaeology; Corrosion