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Comment on Wikipedia Text: auto-oxidation
. . . in referece to the wikipedia text,
auto-oxidation
auto-oxidation, as it pertains to the shroud image, is mere speculation, not supported by working chemistry or a scientific method hypothesis. It has not been shown, by chemistry, how this would actually work. Knight and Lomas might have been more credible if they had taken advantage of the Maillard reaction hypothesis, but even that explanation fails for other reasons if it is supposed that the cloth is medieval.
But, mostly, this is an historical theory with very unsound claims and speculations. A careful reading reveals that Knight and Lomas arrive at conclusions from anecdotal information and then use these conclusions as facts.
But the real problem is that the cloth is probably not medieval. The lack of vanillin content in the fibers shows that the cloth is certainly, at least, several hundred years old when De Molay was executed.
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