New Insights into the Cleaning of Paintings
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156 • smithsonian contributions to museum conservation It is clear as well that at all aqueous conditions tested surfactant is solubilized, but the pattern of extraction does not necessarily follow that of the physical swelling data. It also remains to be seen if this is actually surface- segregated material, leached material, or a combination of both being solubilized. When MRM experiments were performed on one paint sample in particular (GAC titanium dioxide, color 1380, PW6; Figure 5a–c), there was a clear speciation effect of the surfactant solubility as a function of pH. In all cases, there appeared to be an increase in surfactant extraction as pH went up. When the amounts of APEO [23], APEO [30], and APEO [40] species in particular were compared, however, in the extracted supernatants, more surfactant was extracted as the [EO] chain length increased at any given pH. Thus, as [EO] length increases, so too does its role in solubilizing the overall surfactant molecule apparently. 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alien und Methoden [Surface <strong>Cleaning</strong>: Materials and Methods], ed. C. Weyer,<br />
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<strong>the</strong> Surface <strong>Cleaning</strong> Treatment <strong>of</strong> an Acrylic Emulsion<br />
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———. 2007. “Aging Characteristics <strong>of</strong> a Contemporary Acrylic Emulsion Used<br />
in Artists’ Paints.” In Modern Paints Uncovered: Proceedings from <strong>the</strong> Modern<br />
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M. Schilling, pp. 236–246. Los Angeles: The Getty Conservation Institute.<br />
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55:1007–1023.<br />
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.org/10.2307/1506611.<br />
Whitmore, P. M., V. G. Colaluca, and E. Farell. 1996. A Note on <strong>the</strong> Origin <strong>of</strong> Turbidity<br />
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41:250–255. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1506544.<br />
Zumbühl, S., F. Attanasio, N. Scherrer, W. Müller, N. Fenners, and W. Caseri.<br />
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