What Actually Causes Paper to Deteriorate in Storage? Oxford Duplication Centre offer a professional bulk and short-order document scanning facility for corporate, heritage and consumer clients. Converting all paper and animal hide media into National Archive Standard output formats, including PDF, PDF/OCR, TIFF and JPEG options. https://oxfordduplicationcentre.com/document-collections.html The rate and severity of deterioration result from internal and external factors: most importantly, the composition of the paper and the conditions under which the paper is stored. Paper is made of cellulose -- a repeating chain of glucose molecules -- derived from plant cell walls. In the presence of moisture, acids from the environment (e.g., air pollution, poor-quality enclosures), or from within the paper repeatedly cut the glucose chains into shorter lengths. This acid hydrolysis reaction produces more acids, feeding further, continued degradation. Typical causes are as follows: 1. Degradation
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