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A fragment of a text written in red ink is scanned at the X-ray fluorescence analysis station of the Kurchatov synchrotron radiation facility; the element distribution in the scanned region is obtained. The possibility of imaging and reading text fragments using synchrotron radiation is proved.
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Original Russian Text © P.V. Guryeva, A.A. Demkiv, E.A. Sozontov, 2017, published in Poverkhnost’, 2017, No. 1, pp. 110–112.
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Guryeva, P.V., Demkiv, A.A. & Sozontov, E.A. Mapping a text on ancient parchment by X-ray fluorescence analysis using a synchrotron source. J. Surf. Investig. 11, 167–168 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1027451017010116
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