W.A. Oddy's scientific contributions
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Publication (1)
A survey of almost 50 gilded objects in the British Museum has traced the occurrence of the mercury gilding technique from the later Roman and Sasanian Empires of the third and fourth centuries AD to the late Chou period in China of the third century BC. The technique appears to have been unknown during the Hellenistic period and under the Roman Re...
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... Among various procedures, during the Middle Ages firegilding was the most popular technique. It consisted in the application of a paste of Au powder in liquid mercury (Hg), followed by firing of the artifact at high temperature to induce the evaporation of Hg, which left a solid layer of Au behind [4,5]. As the choice of chalice materials changed over the centuries-from glass to precious metals-so did the shape of these objects. ...
