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Month: November 2020
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Dissociation Explained: Impact on Museum Artifacts
What is Dissociation? It is loss of objects, or object-related data, or the ability to retrieve or associate objects and data. This can happen in three different ways: rare and catastrophic single events resulting in extensive loss of data, objects, or object values; Sporadic and severe events occurring every few years or decades resulting in
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Understanding Relative Humidity and Its Effects
What is relative humidity (RH)? It is the quality of the air that ranges between damp and dry. We don’t perceive RH itself, we relate to RH through the dampness or dryness of our bodies in reaction to ambient RH, or we observe the effect on objects such as paper or cloth, which become damp
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The Impact of Chemical Warfare in WWI
Remembering those who have experienced the traumas of war and those that will never return, we continue this week’s Heritage Moment discussing gas masks. Prior to the Battle of Ypres, 18,000 gas shells filled with xylyl bromide targeted Russian lines over Bolimow in January of 1915. This early form of tear gas was a failure
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History of Masks in Warfare: From Gas Masks to Respirators
Every November we stop to reflect on the unimaginable sacrifices that our armed forces have suffered and continue to endure serving our country. Something as simple as breathing clean air was a challenge and at times not within reach for those in the theatre of war operations. In the early 1800s, firefighting, diving, mining, and