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FIGURE 5. From left to right, detail of a soiled Talens titanium white paint film, deionized water droplet placed onto the soiling layer, dried
water droplet two days later, and the same section after swabbing with water, demonstrating that the water droplet helped embed the soiling
into the paint film, making it harder to clean. © Tate 2010.
acrylic dispersion paints and whether migrated surfactant is actually
present.
Acknowledgments
The authors thank Alexia Soldano, Patricia Smithen, Rachel
Barker, Laura Mills, and Lise Chantrier Aasen of Tate, London;
Simone Musso, formerly of Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy;
Grazia de Cesare of the Istituto Centrale per il Restauro; Alex
Ball of the Natural History Museum, London; and AXA Art
Insurance (http://www.axa- art.co.uk) for funding the TAAMPP
research at Tate from 2006 to 2009.
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