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  • Recreating Glass from the Past

    September 23, 2024

    Bruce Ravel, a physicist in the Synchrotron Science Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, uses synchrotron light at NSLS-II to understand how 19th century artists created a unique shade of red glass for Bangkok's Grand Palace. In this installment of NSLS-II Science Shorts, find out if authentic mosaic glass from the 1830s can be recreated using clues that were picked up with x-ray fluorescence spectroscopy.