- 128 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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Care and Conservation of Geological Material
About this book
This is the first book to specifically address the preservation of an increasingly important group of materials. Techniques for processing minerals and rocks in the field and laboratory are outlined as well as the effects of treatments on specimens.
Readership: Professional museum staff, curators and conservators, scientists and technicians; Students of mineralogy, private collectors.
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Topic
Physical SciencesSubtopic
ArchaeologyTable of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title page
- series
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Series editors' preface
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 The stability of minerals
- 2 Conserving light sensitive minerals and gems
- 3 Temperature- and humidity-sensitive mineralogical and petrological specimens
- 4 Elements, alloys and miscellaneous minerals
- 5 Sulphides and allied minerals in collections
- 6 Pyrite and marcasite
- 7 Meteorites
- 8 The lunar sample collection
- 9 Hazards for the mineral collector, conservator and curator
- 1 Appendix I
- 2 Appendix II
- 3 Appendix III
- 4 Appendix IV
- Index
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