We have been asked recently to do a preventive conservation project for a historical collection of the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Belgrade. The collection consists of different devices, lab-ware, tools and instruments, but also of hundreds of flasks and jars with original chemicals, some of them 150 years old. They are displayed in narrow showcases in a corridor next to the working lab of the Faculty, and the employees working in the lab started to report significant fumes coming out of the showcases. It is completely natural, since some of the vessels have original cork stoppers, but the glass is also very deteriorated in many of them. Does anyone have experience with collections of chemicals, especially in terms of reacting with the glass? Where could I find which chemicals are the most aggressive towards glass? Where can I look for the sensitivity of different chemical compounds to light, temperature, RH?
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