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Role of thermoxidation and depolymerisation in the ageing of systems paper/gum arabic/historical ink

  • András Peller EMAIL logo , Milena Reháková , Michaela Ciglanská and Peter Šimon
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The aim of this study was to assess the role and proportional representation of depolymerisation and thermoxidation reaction paths in the systems paper/gum arabic (GA)/historical ink during various accelerated ageing methods. The historical inks under study are iron-gall, bistre, and sepia. The results indicate that thermoxidation represents only a minor reaction path in the ageing of paper/GA/ink systems except for the iron-gall ink and the light-thermal method of accelerated ageing. The iron-gall ink accelerates both reaction paths of ageing, i.e. thermoxidation and depolymerisation; in this case, thermoxidation might become the prevailing degradation reaction path. For the sepia ink, an anti-depolymerisation stabilising effect in thermal methods of ageing has been detected. Considering the thermoxidation reaction path, the results even suggest that a compound preventing thermoxidation is formed during the thermally accelerated ageing in air and in 100 mg L−1 of NO2. In the light-thermal ageing, the most stable sample is the Whatman paper (W)/GA/bistre ink.

Keywords: thermoxidation; depolymerisation; cellulose; ink stability; accelerated ageing; non-Arrhenian temperature function

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https://doi.org/10.2478/s11696-013-0470-1
Keywords for this article
thermoxidation; depolymerisation; cellulose; ink stability; accelerated ageing; non-Arrhenian temperature function

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