1/4 Art 01 The non destructive and in-situ analysis of pigments Investigations in co-operation with the Police Department Berlin, Dr. Geyer-Lippmann Introduction In our daily life pigments are important for colouring of household utensils, e.g. varnishes, plastics, textiles, writings or art paints. The natural scientific identification of pigments has some problems, because of their insolubility in common solvents. Especially when one deals with examinations of very small sample amounts or wishes to perform non-destructive analysis, e.g. in forensic laboratories or analysis of art paintings. Raman spectroscopy turns out to be a ideally suited technique to solve these analytical problems. Questions of product identification, date analysis or detection of fa

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