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The edition of The Bridge of San Luis Rey that I checked out of the library mentioned on the title page that one of the printings had been done on "permanent paper".
Can someone tell me what this is, please?
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paper that has been classified for "Physical keeping of documents" link
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Acid free is always an issue with watercolor papers.
Maybe printing requires a different composition than single sheets of paper. Never heard of this alkaline substance before.
Needs further exploration for the artist's sector. Interesting.
" Sometimes one comes across paper marketed as "acid-free". This must have been supposed both by some paper sellers and some publishers to be a mark of quality. But absence of acid in a paper does not guarantee any permanence, unless it is backed up by a deposit in the paper of an alkaline substance (usually calcium carbonate) to counter the influence of acids from the environment and acids produced during paper degradation.
Permanent paper and lignin
The reason for excluding lignin as a component of permanent paper is now again debated. The debate is part of an understandable trend, known from many technical fields, urging for a move from composition to performance requirements."...etc.
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Thanks, but...does anyone else find the term 'permanent paper' an oxymoron?
On a different note: I saw the phrase I will not in this paper explain... on my computer screen. Do y'all think that eventually the term "writing a paper", etc., will become obsolete?
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"oxy" is funny in this context. Permanent paper- contradictio in terminis?
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Thanks, but...does anyone else find the term 'permanent pap Do y'all think that eventually the term "writing a paper", etc., will become obsolete? Sometime a little after people stop making films.
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Ya know, record is a perfectly applicable term for any technology of storing information once you separate it from its literal meaning of 'by heart'. Album OTOH...
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Oh--I thought CDs were considered albums. "Record album" got shortened to "record", at least where I live. Though there certainly are many kinds of records, if we said, "I'm going to buy a record" it was understood that it was a circle of vinyl that plays usually music when put on a record player. Speaking of which--it occurred to me yesterday that it would be a nice thing to buy Mozart's Requiem on CD. (My cell phone rang during choir practice; I have it set to ring Dies Irae. Instrumental only, but.)
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(My cell phone rang during choir practice; I have it set to ring Dies Irae. did that invoke the said wrath?
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