Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books
A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology

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aqueous

Containing water, or water based. Adhesive systems such as starch, dextrin, natural gums, animal glue, etc., as well as some inks, certain deacidification systems, leather tannins, bleaching solutions, and the like that use water as the carrier are aqueous systems.




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