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Scientists Say They’ve Rediscovered How the Romans Made the British Museum’s Color-Shifting Lycurgus Cup
The researchers embedded nanoparticles of gold and silver into glass—“each a thousand times smaller than a grain of sand.”
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The researchers embedded nanoparticles of gold and silver into glass—“each a thousand times smaller than a grain of sand.”
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According to ARTnews’s source item, Scientists Say They’ve Rediscovered How the Romans Made the British Museum’s Color-Shifting Lycurgus Cup, The researchers embedded nanoparticles of gold and silver into glass—“each a thousand times smaller than a grain of sand.”
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