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Three thousand years of copper metallurgy —seen through the eyes of Mössbauer spectroscopy part III: copper losses in bronze age slags

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Very important information for the reconstruction of archaeometallurgical processes can be obtained from slags. The determination of the mineralogical and chemical composition of the major components has made it possible to derive the most important operative conditions of the ancient smelting processes. However, the loss of copper in the form of particles mechanically entrained in the slags is also of great interest because it can give us information about possible intermediates.

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Parts I and II have been published in Hyperfine Interactions 67 (1991) 473 and 70 (1992) 1005.

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Rüffler, R. Three thousand years of copper metallurgy —seen through the eyes of Mössbauer spectroscopy part III: copper losses in bronze age slags. Hyperfine Interact 99, 401–407 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02274943

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