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Microscopy is cheap and fast method to identify historic mortars
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Why is it important?
Ligth microscopy is very often the only accessible and afordable method and even more importantly some features that identify historical mortars and their fabrication can only bee seen in microscopic preparations because they lead only to textural features without changing the chemistry or mineralogy.
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This page is a summary of: Examples of microscopic analysis of historic mortars by means of polarising light microscopy of dispersions and thin sections, Materials Characterization, November 2007, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.matchar.2007.04.023.
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