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ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 80, Issue 8, Pages 2704-2716Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ac7024333
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A novel method, using Tafel plots, for quantifying electroactive species in solid materials when their voltammetric signals are strongly overlapped is described. This is applied to the analysis of submicrosamples from the highly damaged frescoes painted by Palomino (1707) in the ceiling vault of the Sant Joan del Mereat church in Valencia, Spain. These paintings, which were fired in 1936, contained cobalt smalt plus azurite mixtures, this last being altered to tenorite (CuO). The reported method provides a quantitation of the cobalt smalt/azurite, tenorite/(azurite + smalt) relationships in samples, thus providing direct information on pigment dosage (smalt/ azurite ratio) in pristine paintings, extent of alteration, and temperature experienced by the frescoes during the gunfire episode. Distinction between Palomino paintings and other painters was clearly obtained due to the presence of malachite in these last.
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