Methodology applied to historical walls may explain why moss gathers and how paint blackens
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 - 12:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
For the correct restoration of deteriorated works of cultural heritage, it helps to know what causes the degradation in the first place. There are studies that characterize these types of damage in detail, but that rarely touch on the origin and development of the deterioration. A chemist has now come up with an analytical methodology with the intention of filling this need.