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Addressing Iron Sulfate and Sulfuric Acid Generation in Artifacts Treated with Silicone Oil (2024)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Conservation of Archaeological Materials from Submerged Sites", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The generation of iron sulfates and sulfuric acid in submerged organic artifacts was originally recognized in the early 2000s and has been the subject of research and concern since then. Initially thought to be the result of iron contamination interacting with PEG, it is now evident that the problem is not limited...