A high-humidity environment risks which outcome to Byzantine glass mosaics due to flawed tesserae?

💡 Explanation

Flawed tesserae cause increased water penetration because of a lack of complete vitrification, therefore accelerating the alkali ion concentration on the glass surfaces due to hydrolysis, rather than mitigating other theoretical optical or physical effects.

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