Which risk increases when moisture permeates Byzantine mosaic tesserae mortar?

💡 Explanation

Differential volume expansion weakens the tesserae bond; because the expansion coefficient of the mortar often differs from that of the tesserae. This causes stress concentration and interface cracking; therefore, debonding occurs rather than uniform expansion or other unrelated material changes.

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