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Art conservator to demonstrate X-ray gadget

A preview of the March 3 guest lecture by Erich Uffelman, who teaches chemistry at Virginia's Washington and Lee University. Uffelman to discuss the new gadgets conservators use to study centuries-old paintings. He'll bring one of the portable X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analyzers he uses to detect hidden layers in works by the Dutch Masters, his specialty.