Giant Sequoia: an extraordinary case study involving Carbopol® gel

The attached file is the final accepted manuscript version of a presentation given at Gels in Conservation conference, London 16 - 18 October 2017. The link is to the video of the presentation and the published version is available in the printed proceedings. The photographs appear here by courtesy of the authors.

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