{"id":675197,"date":"2010-02-25T05:54:11","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T10:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/dgs\/jrc\/index.cfm?id=2820&dt_code=HLN&obj_id=453"},"modified":"2010-02-25T05:54:11","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T10:54:11","slug":"nuclear-physics-unveils-secrets-of-bronze-age-sword","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/675197","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear physics unveils secrets of Bronze Age sword"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ec.europa.eu\/dgs\/jrc\/site_images\/thumb_10230.jpg?w=200\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" alt=\"The Buggenum sword, dating from 1300-1100 BC\" title=\"The Buggenum sword, dating from 1300-1100 BC\" ><\/p>\n<p>\nPhysicists at the JRC Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements (IRMM) have helped unveil the secrets of a Bronze Age sword with neutron beams otherwise used to study materials for nuclear reactors. The work was carried out by a team of European researchers investigating the application of modern scientific methods to cultural heritage objects.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nScientists at the IRMM studied the composition of the Buggenum sword using pulsed neutron beams as part of the European-funded project ANCIENT CHARM. In close collaboration with scientists from the Delft University of Technology, ten scientific institutes and museums collaborated to improve and develop certain neutron-based non-destructive analytical and imaging methods for cultural heritage objects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists at the JRC Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements (IRMM) have helped unveil the secrets of a Bronze Age sword with neutron beams otherwise used to study materials for nuclear reactors. The work was carried out by a team of European researchers investigating the application of modern scientific methods to cultural heritage objects. Scientists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2602,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-675197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2PEh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2602"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}