46842
Accession Number
7039
Title Of Article Chaper
Recent art forgeries: detection by carbon-14 measurements
Title Of Journal Book
Nature
Volume
240
Issue
5382
Pages
491-492
Language Of Text
English
Literature Type
Serial
Literature Level
Analytic
Abstract
Measurements of carbon-14 in recently produced artists' materials such as linseed oil and paper show that bomb-produced additions to natural carbon-14 can be readily detected. Sample size requirements are sufficiently small so that such information can be obtained as a means of detecting recent forgeries.
Keywords
Dating, isotope; Dating, radiocarbon; Oil, linseed; Paper, dating ICCROM -- ICCROM
pub_id
46842