On the rate of paper degradation: Lessons from the past

Restaurator

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 275-290

  Calvini, Paolo ^a   Gorassini, Andrea ^b  

^a SBAP   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULOSE; CONSERVATION; DEGRADATION; REACTION KINETICS; VISCOSITY MEASUREMENT;

ACCELERATED AGEING TECHNIQUES; PAPER DEGRADATION; VISCOMETRIC ANALYSES;

PAPER;

CELLULOSE; CONSERVATION; PAPER;

EID: 33846159486     PISSN: 00345806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/REST.2006.275     Document Type: Review

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