[Nhcoll-l] glass storage for fluid collections

[John E Simmons]

It is important to find out where the glass is manufactured, and make sure
they send you a sample of each size to test. There is a lot of glassware
entering the market from China and other countries that is not properly
annealed and thus much more fragile than the soda-lime glass we are all
used to.

--John

John E. Simmons
Writer and Museum Consultant
Museologica
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Associate Curator of Collections
Earth and Mineral Science Museum & Art Gallery
Penn State University
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Investigador Asociado, Departamento de Ornitologia
Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima


On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 2:22 PM Gartner, Heidi RBCM:EX <
HGartner at royalbcmuseum.bc.ca> wrote:

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> I’ve recently sourced a new potential provider for glass jars for our fluid collection.  However, the cost is so cheap I am suspect of the quality of the jars.  I’ve asked them to send some spec sheets and I am wondering what the best features for long term storage that I should look for?  Is soda lime glass acceptable?
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