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Nicole Reifarth: Back
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Abstract: On wax‐covers of medieval altar relics there was found a lamella–like restructuring. So far this type
of damage of aged beeswax was reported only for wax seals. Gas chromatography as well as mass
spectroscopy were used to investigate the cause of the destruction of nine relics. All samples showed
a loss of light paraffin and wax esters. Experiments on reconstructing the medieval processing and
comparing microscopic investigations of medieval wax samples showed, that the processing of the
wax plays an important role for the later restructuring. Further experiments on different
conservation methods have been carried out. Polyethylenglykol (PEG) 6000 and propolis, the natural
bee glue, have been chosen for the consolidation purposes. Polyethylenglykol (PEG) 6000 could be
shown to be best suited for gluing parts of wax.

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  • academic institution: FH Erfurt
  • kind of theses:  Diplomarbeit
  • date:  2003
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