Our Environment Ruined? Environmental Control Reconsidered as a Strategy for Conservation
This paper examines the current debate on guidelines for environmental control in the light of deterioration mechanisms induced and accelerated by fluctuations in relative humidity. Our traditional understanding of these guidelines, based on forces of physical stress and biodeterioration, is develop...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Ubiquity Press
1996-05-01
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| Series: | Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies |
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| Online Access: | http://www.jcms-journal.com/articles/2 |
| Summary: | This paper examines the current debate on guidelines for environmental control in the light of deterioration mechanisms induced and accelerated by fluctuations in relative humidity. Our traditional understanding of these guidelines, based on forces of physical stress and biodeterioration, is developed by an investigation of the oxidative mechanism of chemical deterioration of library and archival materials. |
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| ISSN: | 2049-4572 1364-0429 |