Ceramics analysis strategy

An alternative strategy is appropriate if determinations are to comply with a standard scheme of analysis, such as those developed by the British Standards Institution for the analysis of ceramic and refractory materials. In these schemes, samples are prepared as fused glass disks and calibration samples may then be prepared in the same way using specified proportions of high-purity element oxides. This calibration procedure can, therefore, be considered to be absolute in contrast to the relative measurements made against reference samples. 

Although the archeological problems discussed in this chapter are limited to the archeological problems of Chinese ancient ceramics, it is reasonable to prospect that these methods and strategies described here can be used for other archeological work based on the data analysis of the composition of samples. 

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