Yet if you spend enough time painting, you might wonder why paint behaves the way it does.
Silky, rich, and imbued with vibrant color, the paint feels like a homogeneous substance.
Press the stick to the bottom and you will discover a thick, nearly impenetrable solid mass.
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All paint specifications state how much of the paint is solids or liquids.
For paint on the other end of the sheen spectrumsemi-glosssolids' weight might drop to around 51-percent.
Already it is evident how paint’s make-up applies directly to your own walls.
Water, often called the universal solvent, is used for latex paints.
For oil-based paints, mineral turpentine is often used as the solvent.
Solvents are the ingredient that account for paint drying time.
This is whyhumidandcold conditionsadversely affect paint drying time and, at worst, cause thepaint to fail.
For many latex paints, these resins come in the form of acrylic emulsion polymers.
Pigments: Color
Pigments give paint its color.
Pigments initially come in powdered form.
It is also possible for the product user, after purchase of the paint, to introduce additives.
Penetrol and Floetrol are the brand names of popular additives thatsmooth down brush marks.
The process is a scaled-down version of the way that paint factories make paint.
You will need three main ingredients: pigment, binder, and solvent.
