Paint is a mixture of organic coatings that are applied to various surfaces which develops a film between the surface and the environment. This film or surface coating may have a pigmented or clear composition that dries to form an opaque solid film. Paint is made up of a complex mixture of chemicals, mainly polymers that each provide a specific function to allow the paint to work. These are placed in three categories: The binder, …
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…years of UV rays as if it had been on someone's house. Paint viscosity is also measured with an electronic meter that has a small disc on the end of a rod, which is connected to a panel that shows the pressure needed to get the paint to a certain thickness. If the disc pushes on the sample and measures a different reading from the same sample this means that the viscosity is not consistent.