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Criteria for Treatment: Reversibility
1987
Journal of the American Institute for Conservation
The author reconsiders the "Principle of Reversibility" by clarifying its definition and by examining the variables that make a treatment reversible. Different criteria for different parts of a treatment are recommended. The relationship between cleaning and reversibility is examined. There are degrees of reversibility; even irreversible treatments should be considered in terms of whether they allow for future treatment ("retreatability"). The "Principle of Reversibility"1 is one of the basic
doi:10.1179/019713687806027852
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