18th September 2005, 08:45 PM | #1 |
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Dating Metals?
Is there an empirical means to determine the age of a metal object? Can the determination be made by the patina or chemical make-up of the corrosion? In this case it’s copper or a copper alloy I’m looking for. I'm talking about millennia here, not years or centuries.
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