EN 16455:2014

Conservation of cultural heritage - Extraction and determination of soluble salts in natural stone and related materials used in and from cultural heritage

Publication date:   Jan 21, 2015

General information

90.93   Standard confirmed   May 7, 2026

CEN

CEN/TC 346 Conservation of Cultural Heritage

European Norm

97.195   Items of art and handicrafts. Cultural property and heritage

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Scope

This European Standard provides a methodology for the qualitative and quantitative analysis of anions and cations obtained by dissolution of soluble salts present in either natural stone or other porous inorganic materials constituting cultural heritage and in materials and products used for their restoration. The methodology requires samples to have been taken from the cultural property.
The main ions considered in this standard are:
Cl-, NO2-, NO3-, SO42 -, Na+, K+, NH4+, Ca2+, Mg2+

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EN 16455:2014
90.93 Standard confirmed
May 7, 2026