Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books
A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology

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antiblocking agent

A substance used in either a coating mixture or as an overcoating to prevent one sheet of paper from adhering to another, or to any other object, within a specified range of temperature and humidity. Antiblocking agents are usually waxes or synthetic polymers; a light dusting of talcum powder is sometimes used for the same purpose.




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