On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Jim Leonard wrote:
[snip]
> I like to tuck the thought of boxes themselves containing acid safely away in
> my mind for several years at a time, but occaisionally comments like this
> remind me of the inevitable. Has anyone heard of a way to stop this process?
> I dread the day my boxes are as faded as storefront-window display boxes :-(
It's possible to eliminate the acid in paper and cardboard, but it's an
expensive and laborious process. Or maybe just something like having an
opened ammonia (or some other volatile weak base) container inside a
larger sealed container with the boxes would do, but somehow I doubt that
would work.
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