A Study of the Effects of Two Poly-Ethylene Glycol Pretreatments in the Conservation of Waterlogged Wood
Author(s): Jonathan L Henneberry
Year: 2020
Summary
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Current Research at the Conservation Research Laboratory at Texas A&M University" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
Waterlogged wood can be a challenging material to successfully conserve due to its frailty, ability to discolor, and ease with which it shrinks and warps. In an effort to minimize these issues, an experiment was devised to evaluate the use of an ethanol-based PEG solution versus a water-based PEG solution in terms of shrinkage, coloration, and weight change in the finished samples after they underwent pretreatment in these solutions and were treated through freeze-drying. While PEG treatments are nothing new, this experiment was primarily a learning process that yielded an unexpected result.
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A Study of the Effects of Two Poly-Ethylene Glycol Pretreatments in the Conservation of Waterlogged Wood. Jonathan L Henneberry. 2020 ( tDAR id: 456938)
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Keywords
General
Conservation
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Experiment
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PEG
Geographic Keywords
United States of America
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min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
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Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
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PaperId(s): 366