Recycling
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How to Sample Material From Persephone Books Without Disposing Them
The big question now seems like, how to sample material from these things without destroying them completely. There hasn't been a big like, wow, this is cool pop science to get other people interested in this yet. I think they're hoping to learn more about the climate and like what situations these parchment books had gone through. You can tell if they've been exposed to di kinds of dust or floods or contamination,. linking those to other geological records of those incidents.
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