Técnicas analíticas

Analytical Techniques
Conservators will find a seemingly endless number of analytical techniques in the conservation literature or may even have access to some of them themselves. This tutorial covers the most common analytical techniques that are available to analytical chemists:

• Spectroscopy and spectrometry
• Chromatography
• Scanning Electron Microscopy
• The X factors (XRF, XRD, EDS)

After completing this tutorial, you will be able to:

• Describe the kind of information you can learn about a material through different analytical techniques
• Understand how absorption of energy is key to gaining information from spectroscopic methods
• Recognize that chromatographic techniques are used primarily for separating mixtures of compounds
• Know which techniques destroy the sample and which do not
• Differentiate among the uses for x-ray techniques