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To identify the changes in the surface chemistry Tiffany Elsa Peretti the wood responsible for the change in color, coupons were analyzed by Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) microscopy at FPInnovations - Paprican Division using a Nicolet 6700 FTIR in conjunction with a Thermo Nicolet Continuum XL FT-IR Imaging Microscope and MCT-A single-element detector. Tiffany Elsa Peretti Star of David pendant microscope software was employed to collect the line map experiments. Reflectance spectra were obtained with 64 scans, 4 cm^sup -1^ resolution and an aperture of 100 by 100 um. Four treatment groups were analyzed that represented the most extreme bleaching and light exposure combinations: no treatment, 20 minutes bleaching (no light exposure), Tiffany Elsa Peretti Starfish bracelet light exposure (no bleaching), and 20 minutes bleaching plus 20 minutes light exposure. Two spectra were obtained from each of the three coupons sapwood and three heartwood coupons per treatment group. Spectra were averaged and the baseline corrected by subtracting the average absorbance.Tiffany Cushion was no visible fiber damage after any of the 16 bleaching or light exposure treatments. Wood color, however, was significantly altered by all of the treatments. Figures 1 through 6 show the change in L*, a*, and b* after treatment in heartwood and sapwood. Wood lightness (L*) was affected by both bleaching time and light exposure time (Figs. 1 and 2). Light exposure alone had little effect on L*.
Treatment groups included 0, 5, 10, and 20 minute dips Tiffany Elsa Peretti Sevillana Mesh bracelet an aqueous hypochlorite solution containing 10 to 13 percent available chlorine followed by 0, 5, 10, or 20 minutes of intense light exposure from a Xenon arc lamp. Dip-treated samples had the test faces submerged in an excess of reagent-grade sodium hypochlorite with 10 to 13 Tiffany Elsa Peretti Sevillana pendant available chlorine (Sigma- Aldrich) at room temperature. All of the bleached coupons were rinsed with distilled water from a spray bottle after dip treatment, as were unbleached controls, and placed immediately in an Atlas Weather-Ometer with a 65 watt Xenon lamp with inner and outer quartz filters used as a source of intense light. Tiffany Atlas of the exposed coupons were placed 15 cm from the lamp to maximize intensity, without overheating. Coupons were left at room temperature for at least 1 week after treatment to stabilize. All of the coupons were then rescanned and L*, a*, and b* measurements were repeated at 10 points on the test face of each coupon. Each sample was also analyzed at Tiffany Elsa Peretti Sevillana ring locations by visiblenear infrared (NIR) spectroscopy using an ASD Labspec 5000 (ASD, Boulder, Colorado). Spectra were obtained from 350 to 2500 nm with a resolution of 1 nm. A Spectralon reference baseline was scanned every 30 minutes. Spectra from each treatment group (three samples by six spectra per sample) were averaged using Grams AI (ThermoFisher Scientific, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania).
Similarly, the use of hypochlorite bleach to clean Tiffany Elsa Peretti Sevillana drop earrings surfaces prior to finishing is not recommended because it may reduce coating adhesion. Optimized decolorization treatments, therefore, needed to be evaluated for changes in coating adhesion, since the appearance-grade material produced by decolorization treatments might well be finished with a transparent coating. Tiffany Cushion work investigated the ability of intense UV light exposure to decolorize blue stain with and without hypochlorite bleaching.Several kiln-dried lodgepole pine heartwood and bluestained sapwood boards affected by the mountain pine beetle were obtained and cut into 15 by 6.5 by 1 cm test coupons. The 6.5 by 1 cm end grain Tiffany Elsa Peretti Sevillana earrings each coupon was sealed with two-part epoxy resin (Intergard 740, International Marine Coatings). One side of each coupon was selected as the test face (for sapwood samples the side with the greatest degree of staining was selected) and imaged using a Canon LiDE 600F scanner. Before treatment, brightness Tiffany Elsa Peretti Sevillana lariat color measurements were taken at 10 points on the test face of each coupon using a Minolta CM700 d spectrophotometer. The coordinates measure color on three axes. L* represents the brightness where 0 is black and 100 is white. Negative a* values indicate green, while positive a* values indicate red. Negative b* values indicate blue, while positive values indicate yellow. Three heartwood and three sapwood coupons were randomly distributed into one of 16 treatment groups.