Interactive IRUG Spectrum

Section: 6

Minerals and pigments (MP)

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IRUG filename: RMP00007	Data type: Raman	IRUG material class: Minerals and pigments (MP)
Sample type: Art object / artifact	Common name(s): Orpiment	Chemical/botanical name(s): Arsenic trisulfide
CAS name: Orpiment (As2S3)	Sample source 1: Giuseppe Niccolò Vicentino, The Adoration of the Magi	Source location 1: Yellow particle in mid tone block green ink
Sample identifier 1: Acc#1985-52-2093	Sample source 2: Philadelphia Museum of Art	Source location 2: PO Box 7646, Philadelphia, PA, 19101-7646, US
Color: Yellow, light, translucent	Age: 16th C., dated	Application: Raman microscopy/microspectroscopy
Excitation source (nm): 785	Mode: Scat	Literature Reference: Price, Beth A., Nancy Ash, Haddon Dine, et al., "A Technical Study of 16th Italian Chiaroscuro Woodcuts." Printing Colour 1400-1700. Ed. Ad Stijnman and Elizabeth Upper. Leiden: Brill, 2014. 220-38. Print.
Originating institution name: Philadelphia Museum of Art	Originating institution acronym: PMA	Molecular formula: As2 S3
CAS registry no: 12255-89-9	Other analytical methods: EDS (energy dispersive spectroscopy), XRF (x-ray fluorescence), PLM (polarized light microscopy)