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Use of NAA in marine environment and in archaeology in Greece

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Neutron activation analysis (NAA) is a very sensitive and accurate multielement analytical method that is widely applied to the investigation of environmental and archaeological problems. The first part of this paper is a review of pollution studies of toxic trace elements in sediments, seawater and marine organisms of Saronikos Gulf, Greece by NAA. The second part of this paper is a review of provenance studies based on minor and trace element research in ancient ceramics, obsidian, flint, limestone, marble and lead by Instrumental NAA, performed at the NCSR Demokritos.

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Grimanis, A.P., Kalogeropoulos, N., Kilikoglou, V. et al. Use of NAA in marine environment and in archaeology in Greece. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 219, 177–185 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02038497

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