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Science 18 May 1962:
Vol. 136. no. 3516, pp. 649 - 650
DOI: 10.1126/science.136.3516.649
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Preservation of Old, Waterlogged Wood by Treatment with Polyethylene Glycol

Ray M. Seborg 1 and Robert Bruce Inverarity 2

1 Forest Products Laboratory, U.S. Forest Service, Madison 5, Wisconsin
2 Adirondack Museum, Blue Mountain Lake, New York

The excessive cracking and distortion that old waterlogged wood undergoes when it is dried can be substantially reduced by treating the wood with polyethylene glycol. The process was used to dry 200-year-old waterlogged wood boats recently raised from Lake George, New York.

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