The research team was doing to as a technical proof of concept using readily-available letters. They didn’t especially care about Marie Antoinette.
The Ars article is terrible at conveying this; you have to get to the 7th paragraph to get even the first hints of this. I usually expect better from them.
I agree. I was trying to find out what synchrotron they used, Ars doesnt say! Went to read the paper, apparently they used some portable device for the xrf instead.
The Ars article is terrible at conveying this; you have to get to the 7th paragraph to get even the first hints of this. I usually expect better from them.