They won't need to worry about acidic paper, outgassing (or exploding!)

Books are (or used to be) made of acidic paper.

But 20 years later, most mills were still making acidic paper.

Its publications featured thicker and less acidic paper than that utilized by most paperback houses.

Here, as with album pages, buyers should be particularly aware of the dangers of acidic paper.

Significant fluctuations in temperature and humidity inntensify the destructive processes of acidic paper.

Here we meet the second issue: permanent paper, in 1991, cost 30% more than acidic paper, thus making such a system not feasible.

Both formats were printed on cheap acidic paper, and relatively few have survived the years, despite circulation measured in the tens of millions.

When exposed to light and/or heat, the molecules in the acidic paper will break down even faster.

The goal of the process is to increase the pH of acidic paper on a large scale.