Ammonium alum in alum-treated wooden artefacts: discovery, origins and consequences
Abstract Alum-treatment was extensively applied to archaeological wood from the Oseberg collection in the early 1900s, and was a common conservation method at the time involving impregnating objects with hot concentrated solutions of potassium alum (KAl(SO4)2⋅12H2O). This now obsolete consolidation...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SpringerOpen
2019-10-01
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| Series: | Heritage Science |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40494-019-0321-7 |