[frameconnews] Alkaline reserve, what is it?

["Stephen Todd" <Stephen.Todd@btinternet.com>]

I am posting this query in my capacity
as organiser of the UK's 1998/9 Symposium
on Mountboard [USA Matboard] standards.

If you subscribe to Conservation On Line
you may see this posted there, if Walter 
Henry permits this cross post.

1. The context:

We are discussing mountboard used in the
storage and display of art on paper. Both
cotton and purified woodpulp furnish. We
are aware of the implications of buffering
and photographs.

We are not discussing papers used to make
documents, newspapers or books etc.

We are not discussing buffer solutions used
by conservators working with materials that
may be acidic.

2. The question:

Please give your definition of the difference between:

Alkaline reserve and, alkaline(of course)buffer.

Stephen Todd
Moderator Frameconnews.  
  

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