Word: acidity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...granite base is also coated with wax and needs little maintenance, according to Arthur Beale, Fogg Museum director of conservation Beale says that unlike marble, granite is resistant to acid rain and the elements...
...Acid rain is terribly destructive to bronze sculpture. It reduces metallic bronze to blue green copper sulfate and black copper sulfite," explains Marjorie B. Cohn, a Fogg conservator...
...protect the bronze from the dissolving effects of acid rain and to make cleaning easy, the statue receives regular coats of brown beeswax, according to Facilities Maintenance supervisor James F. Caruso...
...Acid Rain...
...subject to whippings and cigarette burns, as well as fingernail plucking and long periods in which they are hung upside down. In one particularly horrifying case, police in India deliberately blinded 36 suspected criminals during one year by piercing their eyes with bicycle spokes and wrapping them with acid-soaked pads. In countries as diverse as Mauritania and Uruguay, governments seek the cooperation of medical professionals, who either ignore signs of abuse or actively participate in torture. Prisoners of conscience in the Soviet Union, for example, often are forcibly treated by doctors who give them disorienting or pain-causing drugs...