FEATURES OF THE CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF IRON OBJECTS FROM THE FUNDS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM ALDAN MAADYR REPUBLIC OF TYVA
Research was carried out on the chemical composition of iron items provided by the funds of the State Budgetary Institution National Museum named after Aldan-Maadyr of Tyva Republic. Analytical work was carried out on a Hitachi EM-1000 scanning electron microscope, TuvIENR SB RAS. The research results show that the ancient household items and weapons were made of pure iron, iron not always well cleaned from slags and low-carbon iron. In some objects, along with iron, chromium, nickel, titanium, zirconium are present.