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Title Of Article Chaper
About the limits of natural and artificial contents of the main components in Buddhist sculpture alloys
Title Of Journal Book
Kinzoku Hakubutsukan kiyo (Bulletin of the Metals Museum)
Volume
13
Pages
22-30
Collation
9 figs., 11 refs.
ISSN
0285-8452
Language Of Text
English
Language Of Summary
English
Literature Type
Serial
Literature Level
Analytic
Abstract
Deals with the question of the natural and artificial composition of the main components of Tibetan and Chinese Buddhist sculpture. The author proves that the lower limit of zinc, lead, and tin alloying is 1%. He considers that artificial lead-in of gold begins from 0.1% (O. Werner-0.005%, E. Lo Bue -- 0. 01%). -- AATA
Keywords
Sculpture Buddhist Metallography;Sculpture Metal Composition; Sculpture Metal China;Sculpture Metal Tibet;Bronze;Gold AATA
pub_id
16117