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Advances in Materials Physics and Chemistry, 2012, 2, 37-42 /10.4236/ampc.2012.21006 Published Online March 2012 (http ://www.SciRP.org/journal/ampc) Consolidation of Ancient Raw Materials Using a Reversible, Elastic, Soft Polymer 1 2† Juan Manuel Navarrete , Gustavo Leonardo Martínez 1Inorganic and Nuclear Chemistry Department, Faculty of Chemistry, National University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico 2National Coordination to Restore the Cultural Inheritance, National Institute of Anthropology and History, Mexico City, Mexico Email: jmnat33@unam.mx Received November 17, 2011; revised December 3, 2011; accepted January 8, 2012 ABSTRACT Aging of ancient raw materials usually finish with disintegration, which starts on surface of walls to progress toward the inside mass of a huge variety of mineral compounds. This is particularly harmful when antique buildings keep mural paintings, which suffers destruction before the wall itself. Same case appears on sculptures and monuments, whose sur- faces are often attacked by living organisms which start a deterioration process previous to complete disintegration. The main factor to produce these unwanted effects is humidity, either rain for materials exposed to open air, or underground humidity going up by capillarity of minerals, in this case represented by porosity of associated salts forming the mate- rial. This paper describes a method to measure easily the relative porosity of diverse raw materials at laboratory level, by using a radioactive labeled solution, and also a procedure to reduce their porosity of those minerals. The efficiency of this procedure is measured in the same way, and so the results obtained at laboratory leve