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@article{adriaens_insights_2007,
	title = {Insights into electrolytic stabilization with weak polarization as treatment for archaeological copper objects},
	volume = {387},
	issn = {1618-2642, 1618-2650},
	url = {http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s00216-006-0835-1},
	doi = {10.1007/s00216-006-0835-1},
	abstract = {Immersion of corroded copper artefacts in dilute sodium sesquicarbonate solution is a well-recognized stabilization technique—especially in the conservation of objects recovered from marine environments and therefore saturated with chlorides. Here we describe three linked experiments performed to investigate a variation on this treatment, involving the application of a low potential to the artefact in order to drive the chloride extraction process. This includes a new spectroelectrochemical approach which allows 2-D pseudorandom X-ray reflection diffraction patterns to be obtained without interrupting the reaction in solution. Experiments were carried out on synthetically produced chloride layers on copper (nantokite and atacamite). We show that a thick chloride layer is, in general, replaced by a thin cuprite layer through a mechanism which involves detachment of the chloride crystallites from the surface prior to dissolution.},
	language = {en},
	number = {3},
	urldate = {2021-05-07},
	journal = {Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry},
	author = {Adriaens, Annemie and Dowsett, Mark and Leyssens, Karen and Van Gasse, Bjorn},
	month = feb,
	year = {2007},
	pages = {861--868},
}