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The behaviour of heavy metals in soil around the copper and bronze artifacts at archaeological sites provides analogues of the modern contamination of the environment. Being components of copper and bronze artifacts, Cu and Zn are the principal contaminants of soils of archaeological sites. Migration of Cu and Zn as a result of corrosion of copper and bronze artefacts is caused by soil–medium factors that affect electro-chemical processes at the metal surface. Due to adsorption of the dissolved elements on clay minerals and deposition of basic salts on the surface of the source metal, Cu and Zn migration from the solid source does not exceed 5–8 cm from the medium–metal interface.
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Bastrygina, T., Demchenko, L., Mitsyuk, N., Marinich, O. (2017). Copper and Zinc in the Soils of the Olviya Archaeological Site. In: Dent, D., Dmytruk, Y. (eds) Soil Science Working for a Living . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45417-7_25
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