Hi, Karl,
This is very interesting.
The Wikipedia article discusses acidic fumes/vapors are emitted by PVC
(the basefilm of some early 1940s and 1950s tapes) and polyurethane (a
eidely used binder) as well as wood, cork, non-archival cardboard,
paper, and cotton.
It is good to know it's a salt, but, unfortunately, the photo is behind
a login wall.
Cheers,
Richard
On 2014-07-23 3:41 PM, Karl Fitzke wrote:
> Still hoping to engage someone at Cornell with mass spectrometry
> capability, but today Mycologist Dr. Kathie Hodge of Cornell Plant
> Science generously put a few tapes under the microscope and gave us the
> representative photo at the link below. We looked even closer and it
> is surely some kind of salt.
>
> Kathie also shared the finding with a snail taxonomist, who said that
> this looks like Byne's disease.
>
> https://cornell.app.box.com/files/0/f/2153689224/1/f_19287922333
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byne%27s_disease
>
> -Karl
>
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