Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books
A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology
self heating
A condition wherein skins burn or smolder during tannage. It applies especially to the oil tannage of sheepskins and is caused by the oxidation of the cod liver oil used in the tannage with the accompanying liberation of heat. (
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