25324
Accession Number
5739
Title Of Article Chaper
Why do some iron objects break up in storage?
Title Of Journal Book
Conservation of Iron (Maritime Monographs and Reports No. 53)
Pages
50-51
Collation
Figs.,,refs.
Literature Type
Monograph
Literature Level
Analytic
Abstract
Iron objects in storage may sometimes disintegrate by breaking into wedges or into flakes. In this explanation of the phenomenon, Knight describes the layer structure of a corroded iron artifact and the formation of unstable corrosion products. Storage methods which may circumvent this occurrence are now being tested. See also AATA 20-957 for reference to entire book. -- AATA
pub_id
25324