William MontgomeryDec 10, 2024
Preserve your timber's beauty and durability with the right wood preservatives! 🪵💧 Learn about oil-based, water-soluble, and solignum solutions to protect wood from insects, moisture, and decay. Check out the blog for expert tips! 🌟
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A Beginner's Guide to Preserving Timber

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Ste CookJan 25, 2024

Hello, old friend 🥰🦠

(This is a species of Enterobacter that degrades a wood preservative called IPBC. I isolated it myself, and it was the main thing I did my PhD on. It’s been sat in glycerol at -80°C for most of the last 20 years. I need it for a practical this week, so revived a bit on Tuesday. The smell takes me right back - it’s not exactly pleasant, but far nicer than E. coli!)

#Bacteria #Microbiology #Enterobacter #WoodPreservatives #IPBC

Show threadSte CookJan 16, 2023

(My historical context - I used to work on the biodegradation of 'newer' [at the time] wood preservatives, specifically https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iodopropynyl_butylcarbamate. This was part of a project seeing whether these wood preservatives were easier to degrade than the PCP they were starting to replace. Spoilers - they were, almost laughably so)

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Iodopropynyl butylcarbamate - Wikipedia