Determination of potassium content in the B, C and D Corning reference glasses using gamma-ray spectrometry

摘要

Potassium is an important constituent of historical glasses. The determination of potassium concentration frequently plays the basic role for the examination of technology and provenance of glass artefacts. The gamma ray spectrometry belongs to the group of nonde-structive methods of determining potassium content. Papers [1 and 2] provide details of the determination of the element concentration in historic glasses. A short de-scription of the analysis procedure presented in those papers is given below.