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preservation of rare works In certain cases, reformatting is not
the best solution to the problem of disintegration. The original
material may have intrinsic value as an artifact, or it may lose
some of its information in the reformatting process. In such
cases, paper materials are deacidified by one of a number of
chemical processes, some of which can also strengthen paper that
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