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Ancient Silver

File:Meyers Zelst Sayre BNL-21513.pdf This paper suggest that the gold and iridium content can be used to distinguish between Sasanian (Iran) coins and other silver coins.

Activating gold

Neutron knock out

[math]{197 \atop\; }Au (\gamma,n){196 \atop \; }Au[/math]

Au-196 decays with a half life 6.183 days of by electron capture to Pt-196 92% of the time or the rest of the time it Beta decay to Hg-196

The highest relative intensity gamma ray has an energy of 333.03 keV after Au-196 undergoes electron capture. Pt-196 is stable.

If Pt-196 is in an excited state, then there are two lifetimes to de-excite of 8.1 seconds and 9.6 hours . For the 9.6 hours state then dominant intensities are a photon emission energies of 188.27 and 147.81 keV.

Proton Knockout

[math]{197 \atop\; }Au (\gamma,p){196 \atop \; }Pt[/math]

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