Paints - Acrylic Paint, Anti-Climb Paint, Anti-Fouling Paint, Anti-Graffiti Coating, Biomimetic Antifouling Coating, Blacklight (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 40. Chapters: Acrylic paint, Anti-climb paint, Anti-fouling paint, Anti-graffiti coating, Biomimetic antifouling coating, Blacklight paint, Chemical resistance, Chempol, Enamel paint, Fingerpaint, Glue-size, Hammer paint, Hyperseal, Insulative paint, Japan black, Lacquer, Lead paint, Luminous paint, Metallic paint, Milk paint, Oil paint, Painterwork, Pontypool japan, Poster paint, Primer (paint), Soy paint, Stain blocking primers, Tempera, Undark, Water miscible oil paint. Excerpt: Paint is any liquid, liquefiable, or mastic composition which, after application to a substrate in a thin layer, is converted to a solid film. It is most commonly used to protect, color or provide texture to objects. In 2011, South African archeologists reported finding a 100,000 year old human-made ochre-based mixture which could have been used like paint. Cave paintings drawn with red or yellow ochre, hematite, manganese oxide, and charcoal may have been made by early Homo sapiens as long as 40,000 years ago. Ancient colored walls at Dendera, Egypt, which were exposed for years to the elements, still possess their brilliant color, as vivid as when they were painted about 2,000 years ago. The Egyptians mixe their colors with a gummy substance, and applied them separate from each other without any blending or mixture. They appeared to have used six colors: white, black, blue, red, yellow, and green. They first covered the area entirely with white then traced the design in black, leaving out the lights of the ground color. They used minium for red, and generally of a dark tinge. Pliny mentions some painted ceilings in his day in the town of Ardea, which had been done prior to the foundation of Rome. He expresses great surprise and admiration at their freshness, after the lapse of so many centuries. Paint was made with the yolk of eggs and therefore, ..