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Contribution Title The Conservation of Waterlogged Ivory – Effects of Glycerol on Drying
Main Author I. M. Godfrey
Co-authors K. Kasi, G. Turner-Walker, M. Buendía-Ortuno
Working Group Wet Organic Archaeological Materials
Type Paper
Keywords waterlogged ivory; glycerol; drying stresses; conservation; porosity; density; hygroscopicity
Language English
Year / Venue 2019 Portsmouth
in Publication Wet Organic Archaeological Materials 2019. Proceedings of the 14th ICOM-CC Wet Organic Archaeological Materials Working Group Interim Meeting, Portsmouth 2019
ISBN (publication) 978-2-491997-32-8
Publisher ICOM-CC

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