Hierarchy classification:

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2. Materials Facet
3. Materials (hierarchy name)
4. materials (substances)
5. [materials by form]
6. [materials by chemical form]
7. compounds (materials)

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Scope note:

A volatile, organozinc liquid compound used in mass deacidification of library materials. Because it ignites upon exposure to air, diethyl zinc can only be used in conservation under controlled conditions, released within a specially designed vacuum chamber from which oxygen has been evacuated.