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The Use of Oxygen-Free Environments in the Control of Museum Insect Pests (Tools for conservation): Proceedings of the Corinth Workshop (Getty Publications – (Yale))
. Maekawa
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Paperback. Museums worldwide face the challenge of finding non-toxic methods to control insect pests. This manual focuses on practical rather than theoretical issues in the use of oxygen-free environments. The accompanying CD-ROM contains the text, along with an index with terms linked to the text. Series: Tools for Conservation. Num Pages: 224 pages, 6 colour & 50 b&w illustrations, 25 line illustrations. BIC Classification: GM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 221 x 295 x 15. Weight in Grams: 596.
Museums throughout the world face the challenge of finding non-toxic methods to control insect pests. This book focuses on practical rather than theoretical issues in the use of oxygen-free environments, presenting a detailed, hands-on guide to the use of oxygen-free environments in the eradication of museum insect pests. This volume discusses the use of nitrogen as the inert gas used to replace oxygen, and the use of a few specific types of containers as treatment chambers. An initial chapter explains the general advantages anoxia offers museum conservators. Subsequent chapters discuss methods and materials, small-scale anoxia using an oxygen absorber, large-scale ... Read more
Museums throughout the world face the challenge of finding non-toxic methods to control insect pests. This book focuses on practical rather than theoretical issues in the use of oxygen-free environments, presenting a detailed, hands-on guide to the use of oxygen-free environments in the eradication of museum insect pests. This volume discusses the use of nitrogen as the inert gas used to replace oxygen, and the use of a few specific types of containers as treatment chambers. An initial chapter explains the general advantages anoxia offers museum conservators. Subsequent chapters discuss methods and materials, small-scale anoxia using an oxygen absorber, large-scale ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Getty Trust Publications United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
Tools for Conservation
Number of Pages
172
Place of Publication
Los Angeles, United States
ISBN
9780892366934
SKU
V9780892366934
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99-34
About . Maekawa
Shin Maekawa, co-author of Inert Cases in the Control of Museum Insect Pests and editor of Oxygen-Free Museum Cases, both from the Getty, is a senior scientist at the Getty Conservation Institute. Kerstin Elert is a research fellow at the University of Granada, Spain
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