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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;MetaCoin, post: 1024520, member: 26699&quot;]Could it be used for coins? And would that be &#039;cleaning&#039; or &#039;conservation&#039;?</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Where there&#039;s silver, there&#039;s tarnish. While getting the tarnish off your flatware might be an occasional inconvenience, to museum curators and conservators, it&#039;s a threat to irreplaceable works of art.</p><p><br /></p><p>To protect these objects for generations to come, scientists from the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park, have teamed up with conservators from the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Md., to develop and test a new, high-tech way to protect silver art objects and artifacts, using coatings that are mere nanometers thick.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Full story <a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/materials-scientists-conservators-join-forces-to-preserve-silver-artifacts-and-art-105764868.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/materials-scientists-conservators-join-forces-to-preserve-silver-artifacts-and-art-105764868.html" rel="nofollow"><b>here</b></a>.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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