35868
Accession Number
20838
Title Of Article Chaper
Assessing the detrimental effects of wood and wood products on the environment inside display cases
Title Of Journal Book
Preprints of papers presented at the Fifteenth annual meeting of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, May 20-24, 1987
Pages
22-33
Publisher
The American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works
Publisher City
Washington DC
ISSN
0272-3727
Language Of Text
English
Literature Type
Serial : Proceedings
Literature Level
Analytic
Meeting
The American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC) fifteenth annual meeting
Meeting City
Vancouver
Abstract
Detrimental effects of wood based construction materials used in the museum environment are discussed. Chemistry of wood and wood products is reviewed with regard to emission of formaldehyde and acetic acid, using examples of storage problems reported in the conservation literature. A method for testing wood and wood products for their detrimental effects is presented.
Keywords
Wood, acid gas emission; synthetic-resin, urea formaldehyde; show-case material, test; show-case material, gas emission; storage container material, gas emission; museum, storage; ICCROM
pub_id
35868
Meeting Date
19870520-19870524