The evaluation of crystallization modifiers for controlling salt damage to limestone

被引:71
作者
Selwitz, C [1 ]
Doehne, E [1 ]
机构
[1] Getty Conservation Inst, Los Angeles, CA USA
关键词
potassium ferrocyanide; sodium chloride; sodium sulfate; Monks Park limestone; Texas Creme limestone; crystallization inhibitor; subflorescence; efflorescence; stone deterioration; salt damage;
D O I
10.1016/S1296-2074(02)01182-2
中图分类号
K85 [文物考古];
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0601 ;
摘要
Crystallization modifiers can significantly affect the capillary passage of dilute and concentrated solutions of sodium chloride and sodium sulfate through columns of limestone. In the absence of modifiers, sodium chloride passage through Monks Park limestone gave predominantly subflorescence with mild edge erosion while sodium sulfate mainly effloresced and severely damaged the stone column. With Texas Creme limestone, a stone of moderately higher porosity, essentially only efflorescence occurred with either salt and there was little or no stone damage. Uniquely, alkali ferrocyanides were found to impact significantly on the interaction of these solutions as they moved through the limestone. The addition of 0.10-1.00% of K4Fe(CN)(6) to sodium chloride in Monks Park limestone experiments increased the flow rate of solutions through the stone, resulting in efflorescence in place of subflorescence, and yielded a massive formation of extended dendritic filaments without damaging the stone. This protection by additive was extended to sodium sulfate solutions, but only at lower salt concentrations. Results comparable to the effect of adding K4Fe(CN)(6) to concentrated sodium chloride Monks Park limestone experiments were obtained with saturated sodium sulfate solutions without additives by conducting the experiments in a draft-free, high humidity environment--suggesting a potentially useful strategy for the conservation of fragile, salt-laden objects. These results are explained by factors causing evaporation of solution to occur either below or at the surface of the stone, and by the effect of modifiers on the crystal habit of the salts forming during evaporation in this region.
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