TY - GEN AU - Mai Mohamed Rifai AU - Mohamed Abd El Hady , AU - Mohamed Salah Elkhouly , TI - The impact of different soils on the corrosion of copper - based artifacts and methods of their conservation / PY - 2006/// CY - Cairo : PB - Mai Mohamed Rifai , KW - ACTS KW - Conserv Ation KW - Corrosion of copper - based KW - Methods KW - Soils N1 - Thesis (PH.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty Of Archaeology - Department Of Conservation; Issued also as CD N2 - With the exception of Citric acid and EDTA which severely etched the samples , the solutions proved to be week in solely removing the corrosion products in this short spanMechanical cleaning before or / andduring the treatment gave better resultsThe extracted amount of soluble chlorides considerably increased after the mechanical cleaning which removes the outer layersAs most investigations prove , chlorides are found near the metal , in contact with it , and cleaning exposes just the inner portion of alteration layersWashing the objects with deionised water - a treatment UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -