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2019
Book chapter
Metal conservation, cellulose nitrate and the Oddy Test
Conservation materials such as coatings, adhesives and consolidants are often applied to museum objects and, as such, are present in stores or display cases. It is necessary to check they do not emit volatiles that are harmful to object materials and one way this can be done is with the...Eggert, Gerhard ; Bette, Sebastian ; Ziegler, Julia ; Korenberg, Capucine ; Kuiter, Rebekka …
Frigilene, cyanide, HMG, cellulose nitrate, silver, Oddy test, and conservation materials
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2019
Book chapter
The use of an Er:YAG laser in the removal of biological growth from polychrome archaeological terracotta figurines from Cyprus
The British Museum preserves a large and archaeologically important collection of painted terracotta and limestone figurines from ancient Cyprus. These were the subject of a collaborative conservation and study programme as part of the Cyprus Digitisation Project. The figurines were covered by dark and ingrained speckles of biological growth, possibly...Pereira-Pardo, Lucía ; Camurcuoglu, Duygu ; Orsini, Miriam ; Weglowska, Katarzyna ; Kiely, Thomas …