110430

An Unusual Corrosion Product, Kobyashevite, From Ancient Egyptian Copper Artifacts: Technical Note

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Electrochemistry

Abstract

Kobyashevite is one of copper sulfate hydroxide hydrate minerals “devilline group". It forms as a thin coating crust in calcite and gypsum veins and it takes flower-like morphology and its color varies between the bluish-green to turquoise-blue. In the laboratory studies, it has been synthesized in humid atmospheric air containing sub-ppm of SO2. In the corrosion studies of archeological metals, it has not been identified before. Fortunately, the case study objects have never been undergone any conservation processes before, which gives originality of the analyzed samples and more accurate results. Scanning electron microscopy-energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, X-ray fluorescence, and Raman spectroscopy have been carried out in order to identify the corrosion samples. The present study identified a "kobyashviete" corrosion product for the first time in the archaeological studies on some archeological copper artifacts from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. The study has been suggested that the formation of the unusual corrosion product "kobyashviete" is due to exposure the case study to uncontrolled long–term humid storage environment which has been contaminated with a high percentage of sulfur gases.

DOI

10.21608/ejchem.2020.36950.2763

Keywords

kobyashevite, copper model tools, copper corrosion products, storage environment, sulfur dioxide

Authors

First Name

Manal

Last Name

Maher

MiddleName

Ahmed

Affiliation

Researcher in Post Graduate Studies College of Nanotechnology, Cairo University; Head of Computed Tomography X-Ray unit, Cairo Egyptian Museum, Ministry of Antiquities, Egypt

Email

manal.a.maher@gmail.com

City

Giza

Orcid

0000-0002-9257-9907

First Name

Yussri

Last Name

Ali

MiddleName

Salem

Affiliation

Lecturer, Conservation Department, Faculty of Archaeology, South Valley University, Qena 83523, Egypt

Email

yousry.ali@arch.svu.edu.eg

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Volume

64

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1

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19680

Issue Date

2021-01-01

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2020-07-23

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2021-01-01

Page Start

11

Page End

23

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0449-2285

Online ISSN

2357-0245

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297

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Egyptian Journal of Chemistry

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/

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An Unusual Corrosion Product, Kobyashevite, From Ancient Egyptian Copper Artifacts: Technical Note

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22 Jan 2023