Desorption of Residual Ethylene Oxide from Fumigated Library Materials
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Acknowledgment
The authors are grateful to Dr. Robert E. McComb for sharing his knowledge and his extensive experience with ethylene oxide fumigation at the Library of Congress, for which he originally established guidelines and work practices.
Table of Contents - Introduction - Experimental - Results and Discussion - References - Supporting Documents