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A multi-scalar investigation of the colouring materials used in textile wrap**s of Egyptian votive animal mummies
Commonly exhibited in museum galleries, animal mummies have been the focus of interest of both visitors and researchers alike. The study of these...
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Characterization of an unusual coating on funerary portraits from Roman Egypt circa 100-300AD
This paper details the investigation of a discrete coating observed on a group of Egyptian panel paintings, six mummy portraits and one funerary...
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Paleogenetic Study of Ancient Mummies at the Kurchatov Institute
An interdisciplinary study of ten ancient Egyptian mummies from the collection of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, which date back to the 1st...
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Advances in the development of hemostatic biomaterials for medical application
BackgroundMedical hemostatic biological materials are necessary for the development of the process of preventing and stop** damaged intravascular...
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Indian Sandalwood’s Heartwood of History: A Global Sketch from 3000 BCE to 2020
This global environmental history of Santalum album (L) examines the origins of the use of Indian or white sandalwood in Ayurvedic medicine, Hinduism...
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History of dental biomaterials: biocompatibility, durability and still open challenges
ObjectiveThis review paper aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the historical evolution of dental biomaterials, as well as to understand...
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The Manufacture and Decoration of Nantgarw Porcelain
Some 53 Nantgarw porcelain services have been categorised as “named” services, wherein either their original provenance or later possession by a...
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New Advances of the Nanotechnology in Textile Engineering: Functional Finishing with Quantum Dots and Others Nanoparticles
The development of textile materials with functional nanoparticles has been driven by the advancement of materials science, the globalized market,...
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Nondestructive Testing of Objects from Cultural Heritage with NMR
Our world heritage is constantly facing the risk of being lost, either to severe weather conditions, chemical or biological attack, mishandling by...
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Nondestructive Testing of Objects from Cultural Heritage with NMR
Our world heritage is constantly facing the risk of being lost, either to severe weather conditions, chemical or biological attack, mishandling by...
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Future of nanoindentation in archaeometry
This review aims to consolidate scarce literature on the use of modern nanomechanical testing technique like instrumented nanoindentation in the...
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Porcelain and Its Composition
The definition of porcelain is followed by a survey of the different types of porcelain manufactured, including bone china, which forms the basis for...
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An assessment of multimodal imaging of subsurface text in mummy cartonnage using surrogate papyrus phantoms
Ancient Egyptian mummies were often covered with an outer casing, panels and masks made from cartonnage: a lightweight material made from linen,...
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Wood Preservation and Wood Finishing
Wood protection deals with all aspects that increase service life of wood products. As such it deals with protection from fire, chemical degradation,...
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High-Resolution Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy of Cultural Organic Material
Solid state NMR methods permit the examination of the bulk material of objects of importance to cultural heritage, without differential sampling...
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Analytical Results and Correlation with Recipes and Formulations
A survey is made of the raw materials which comprise the manufacture of Swansea and Nantgarw porcelains such as sand, potashPotash, limeLime, flints...
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Case Studies of THz Pulsed TDI
THz pulsed TDI has been used to study various museum objects around the world. This chapter introduces its practical examples using a commercial THz...
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High-Resolution Solid State NMR Spectroscopy of Cultural Organic Material
Solid state NMR methods permit the examination of the bulk material of objects of importance to cultural heritage, without differential sampling...
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Assessment of reproductive toxicity of multiwalled carbon nanotubes and their putative effects on population ecology of mouselike rodents
An assessment of the reproductive toxicity of multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) for male laboratory mice according to a set of...
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Study of color pigments associated to archaic chinchorro mummies and grave goods in Northern Chile (7000–3500 B.P.)
This article presents the results of physical–chemical characterization of the layers of coating covering the bodies, faces and stuffed of four...
