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Is this holy relic preserved?

Is this holy relic preserved? MATERIAL WITNESS news & views As a material artefact, the Shroud of perhaps involving amines or lactic acid 3,4 Turin should be a fairly simple puzzle in sweat ? Some haven’t stopped short to solve. Whether it is really the burial of proposing quasi-fantastical (or, if cloth of Jesus Christ isn’t a well-posed you prefer, divine) release of ‘radiant question scientifically, but — you energy’ such as X-rays. would think — at least a disproof It is hard, among all this feverish should be straightforward. And that’s speculation, for calm science to how it seemed when a radiocarbon prevail, especially because no further dating study in 1989 reported that the testing of the shroud — venerated shroud linen dates from around the last year by Pope Francis as an 1 PHILIP BALL thirteenth to the fourteenth century . ‘object of devotion’ — has so far been A medieval forgery, then. authorized. The latest findings are But was that tiny sample presented soberly enough, but their were also sources of balms for funeral representative of the whole? Others reception will surely be considered and burial in ancient times, according claimed that the patch tested — a by true believers to add http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Nature Materials Springer Journals

Is this holy relic preserved?

Nature Materials , Volume 16 (5) – Apr 25, 2017

Is this holy relic preserved?

Abstract

MATERIAL WITNESS news & views As a material artefact, the Shroud of perhaps involving amines or lactic acid 3,4 Turin should be a fairly simple puzzle in sweat ? Some haven’t stopped short to solve. Whether it is really the burial of proposing quasi-fantastical (or, if cloth of Jesus Christ isn’t a well-posed you prefer, divine) release of ‘radiant question scientifically, but — you energy’ such as X-rays. would think — at least a disproof It is hard,...
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Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 2017 by Nature Publishing Group, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited. All Rights Reserved.
Subject
Materials Science; Materials Science, general; Optical and Electronic Materials; Biomaterials; Nanotechnology; Condensed Matter Physics
ISSN
1476-1122
eISSN
1476-4660
DOI
10.1038/nmat4897
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Abstract

MATERIAL WITNESS news & views As a material artefact, the Shroud of perhaps involving amines or lactic acid 3,4 Turin should be a fairly simple puzzle in sweat ? Some haven’t stopped short to solve. Whether it is really the burial of proposing quasi-fantastical (or, if cloth of Jesus Christ isn’t a well-posed you prefer, divine) release of ‘radiant question scientifically, but — you energy’ such as X-rays. would think — at least a disproof It is hard, among all this feverish should be straightforward. And that’s speculation, for calm science to how it seemed when a radiocarbon prevail, especially because no further dating study in 1989 reported that the testing of the shroud — venerated shroud linen dates from around the last year by Pope Francis as an 1 PHILIP BALL thirteenth to the fourteenth century . ‘object of devotion’ — has so far been A medieval forgery, then. authorized. The latest findings are But was that tiny sample presented soberly enough, but their were also sources of balms for funeral representative of the whole? Others reception will surely be considered and burial in ancient times, according claimed that the patch tested — a by true believers to add

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Nature MaterialsSpringer Journals

Published: Apr 25, 2017

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