Warning on deterioration of famous Swedish warship, Vasa

Posted August 29th, 2012 by PCC STEM & filed under Chemistry.

The famous warship, Vasa, displayed in a museum that gets 1.2 million visitors every year and ranks as one of Sweden's most popular tourist attractions, is deteriorating despite ongoing preservation efforts, scientists are reporting. Their study, citing a "significant" loss of strength in the ship's wood, appears in ACS' journal Biomacromolecules.

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