Word: nystatin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bacterial onslaught of molds and fungi. "If we had not found a solution," says Baldini, "those frescoes would have been devoured by micro-organisms." He and his colleagues ran through dozens of mold-killing antibiotics to test their effect on paint. Finally one was left: Squibb's Nystatin, a stomach medicine, which did not harm the pigments. But it came in the form of pills, which could not be fed to a wall. At last the University of Florence's chemistry department found a way to render powdered Nystatin soluble, and it was sprayed on the frescoes...
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