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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Rec, post: 2886183, member: 6899&quot;]<b>What is foxing?</b></p><p>Foxing appears as dark spots, brownish (never any other colour which isn’t darkening of paper)<b> in paper or cloth documents</b>, but not on leather stuff. What we cannot deny is that oxidation plays a significant role, and its consequent acidification and the derived cellulose weakening propitiates microbial growth.</p><p>Evidence also shows us that environmental exposure to oxygen is –if not its direct cause– a remarkable catalyst, since usually it is most pronounced in the most exposed areas (edges of the sheets, covers, book-edges…).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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