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Orpiment in Colonial Williamsburg: Challenges with the Identification of Yellow Arsenic Sulphides in Historic Housepaints

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 July 2021

Kirsten Moffitt*
Affiliation:
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, Virginia, United States

Abstract

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Type
Portable- and Laboratory-based Approaches to Analysis in Cultural Heritage
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Microscopy Society of America

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