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<p>[QUOTE="Darkwing Manor, post: 442442, member: 738"]MY dishwashing chemicals eat my cheap soda-lime glass over time, mostly the bar industry's industrial pint glasses and such. I just toss them and get more at Goodwill. I never put my "good" glass in the dishwasher. It could also be that your glass is crizzling from weeping glass disease, caused by a poor cullet batch. At home there is nothing you can do unless you are a conservator and happen to have a chemistry lab in your basement. Keeping it dry will slow down the deterioration, but the breakdown is inevitable. When purchasing old glass take note of any cloudiness or crizzling, an oily residue or crystal formations and an odd odor, and pass it up. Here's a brain-numbing explanation of the lengths you need to go to to reverse it. Because this is a conservator's approach, very few items would warrant this expense outside of a museum collection. <a href="http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/journals/conservation-journal/issue-29/cracking-crizzling-eight-years-of-collaborative-research/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/journals/conservation-journal/issue-29/cracking-crizzling-eight-years-of-collaborative-research/" rel="nofollow">http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/journals/conservation-journal/issue-29/cracking-crizzling-eight-years-of-collaborative-research/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Darkwing Manor, post: 442442, member: 738"]MY dishwashing chemicals eat my cheap soda-lime glass over time, mostly the bar industry's industrial pint glasses and such. I just toss them and get more at Goodwill. I never put my "good" glass in the dishwasher. It could also be that your glass is crizzling from weeping glass disease, caused by a poor cullet batch. At home there is nothing you can do unless you are a conservator and happen to have a chemistry lab in your basement. Keeping it dry will slow down the deterioration, but the breakdown is inevitable. When purchasing old glass take note of any cloudiness or crizzling, an oily residue or crystal formations and an odd odor, and pass it up. Here's a brain-numbing explanation of the lengths you need to go to to reverse it. Because this is a conservator's approach, very few items would warrant this expense outside of a museum collection. [URL]http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/journals/conservation-journal/issue-29/cracking-crizzling-eight-years-of-collaborative-research/[/URL][/QUOTE]
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