IRG/COIPM INTERNATIONAL MARINE TEST - to determine the effect of timber substrate on the effectiveness of water-borne salt preservatives in sea-water. Progress Report 22: Report on the conditions of specimens at Sekondi, Ghana after 60 months
IRG/WP 4123F F K Ampong, N Asare-Nyadu
The results of the third inspection of CCA and CCB treated test panels exposed at Sekondi, Ghana in June 1980 are presented. None of the panels still in test, i.e. panels of Pinus sylvestris treated with CCA at 3 and 10%, Alstonia scholaris treated with CCA at 10%, Fagus sylvatica treated with CCA at 10%, and Erythrophleum ivorense and Mitragyna stipulosa both treated with CCB at 10%, shows any external evidence of borer attack. X-radiography, however, shows that only Fagus sylvatica panels treated with 10% CCA remain completely free of attack. The attacking borers are teredinids.
Keywords: IRG/COIPM MARINE TEST; CCA; CCB; GHANA; MARINE BORERS; TEREDINIDS; PHOLADS; LIMNORIIDAE; FOULING ORGANISMS; X-RADIOGRAPHY
Conference: 86-05-26/30 Avignon, France
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