My First Acid Digestion.
When looking at archaeological material, we sometimes need to use a destructive analysis to get a better idea of the chemistry of the...
What has analytical chemistry ever done for us...?
Ever wondered how famous artists like Rembrandt created their masterpieces? Or what happens to microbes when they're left to grow in...
Number Crunching!
Firstly, I will apologise for taking so long about writing this post. I had planned to explain what I was doing as I went along, but the...
So many spectra
So I'm well and truly in data processing mode. My post-excavation job is to process, number-crunch, and interpret all the pXRF data that...
Working on St. Vincent
I have spent most of my time on St. Vincent in the National Trust Museum in Kingstown. I have using the pXRF to analyse a number of the...