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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 8225983, member: 27832&quot;]You&#039;re right, of course. And reading further into the article, I see that some of their analyses <i>did</i> require removing small amounts of material (a few milligrams) from the objects.</p><p><br /></p><p>Neutron activation could give composition throughout the piece, I believe, but the Romanian authorities didn&#039;t allow them to do that. It&#039;s <i>technically</i> not non-destructive, as a tiny fraction of the material gets <i>transmuted</i> into other elements, and the object can remain radioactive for quite a while afterward, but hey, besides <i>that</i>... <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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