Preventing and Treating the Dezincification of Brass – Canadian Conservation Institute (CCI) Notes 9/13

This Note explains what dezincification is and where it can be encountered in conservation as well as how to prevent and treat it.

Dezincification assisted cracking of yellow brass tubes in a heat exchanger - ScienceDirect

Agrawal Conservation Metals Humid Spaces, PDF, Corrosion

A Svea 123r covered in burnt soot.

Dezincification - an overview

Durability of the non-dezincification resistant CuZn40Pb2 brass in Scandinavian waters - ScienceDirect

Brass dezincification with a bipolar electrochemistry technique - ScienceDirect

Agrawal Conservation Metals Humid Spaces, PDF, Corrosion

Preventing and Treating the Dezincification of Brass – Canadian Conservation Institute (CCI) Notes 9/13

Dezincification

3 Different Forms of Brass