ABSTRACT
Paint Chemistry: paint — a suspension pigment in an oil vehicle. It applies to virtually any surface coating designed for protection of a surface or for decoration, or both. Sometimes the word paint may be a general term and the term “surface coating” is more specific. vehicle — the portion of a surface coating other than the pigment, the purpose of which is to enable the pigment to be distributed over the surface. The vehicle includes solvents, binders, and other additives. The term vehicle is frequently used to indicate the oil or resin which forms a continuous film and binds the pigment to the substrate. lacquer — fast-drying coatings, clear or pigment, that dry by evaporation of the solvent rather than by oxidation or polymerization. varnish — a homogenous solution of drying oils and resins in organic solvents. The resins may be naturally occurring, for example, rosin or dammar, or synthetic, for example, products of the reaction of phenol and formaldehyde. stain — a solution of a dye or a suspension of a pigment in a vehicle designed to impart a color to wood surface rather than to form a protective coating.
