Scavenger

Description

Any substance that actively absorbs or consumes unwanted impurities and pollutants in a system. For example, vapor phase inhibitors are used to scavenge hydrogen sulfide before it can tarnish silver. See Hydrogen sulfide scavenger and Oxygen scavenger.

getter; pollutant absorber; vapor phase corrosion inhibitor; activated charcoal; activated carbon; charcoal cloth;

Brand names: Purafilter; Pacific silvercloth; Ageless®; Scavengel [Art Preservation Services]

Cecily Grzywacz, "Monitoring for Gaseous Pollutants in Museums", Getty Publications, 2006.
AIC Conservation Wiki: Exhibit Technical Notes: Environmental Control
Exhibit Guidelines Technical Note: Using Pollutant Absorbers Inside an Exhibit Case
Richard S. Lewis, Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 10th ed., 1993
Pam Hatchfield, Pollutants in the Museum Environment, Archetype Press, London, 2002
Random House, Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, Grammercy Book, New York, 1997
The American Heritage Dictionary or Encarta, via Microsoft Bookshelf 98, Microsoft Corp., 1998