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.
Kai (1985) found peroxide, chlorite, and hypochlorite systems Tiffany Elsa Peretti Round earrings be effective for bleaching blue-stained aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.). Evans et al. (2007) reported that sodium hypochlorite treatments provided the best bleaching of blue-stained lodgepole pine sapwood with only moderate heartwood discoloration relative to other bleaching treatments. The highest concentration tested (10.5%) Tiffany Elsa Peretti Round pendant the greatest bleaching effect when sprayed on the samples and airdried for 24 hours. Unlike peroxide bleaching, hypochlorite bleaching was effective at low temperatures (20C). This is appealing for in-line use, as a lengthy heating step can thus be avoided. Recent preliminary work at FPInnovations - Forintek Division (unpublished) showed that UV light could partially decolorize blue stain and also induce the typical aged pine color that helps mask residual blue stain. UV and visible light Tiffany Elsa Peretti Sevillana bracelet strongly absorbed by the fungal melanins that cause blue stain (Zink and Fengel 1990), as well as by wood itself. While exposure to UV and visible light for extended periods will damage wood, a short exposure period, in combination with chemical bleaching, may be able to decolorize blue stain without significantly damaging the wood. Bleaching or light exposure may alter the surface chemistry of the wood, which in turn could influence coating adhesion. Changes in surface chemistry caused by weathering can reduce coating adhesion in several species (Williams et al. 1990, Evans et al. 1997, Jirous-Rajkovic et al. 2007).
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