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Deterioration of Metals in Underwater Environments & Emergency Treatments and Storage
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Deterioration of Metals in Underwater Environments & Emergency Treatments and Storage When excavating many things have to be taken into consideration, these artifacts have been resting in their own microclimate. Changing these conditions of humidity, temperature, and presence of light may destroy the artifact completely. So when packing and transporting. These conditions have to be kept constant. Even when an artifact is in a safe location such as a museum store these conditions still have to be kept until conservation takes place. "The conservator, by contrast, is looking for an indefinite lifetime for the treated artifact, Is concened with both preventing new corrosion and preserving or reversing that which has already occurred and generally cannot simply replace objects that have corroded too far to be conveniently treated. In addition the conservator is often required to preserve not only the metal in the artifact but also the corrosion products. With metals such as bronze,...
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