Technical Area

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Abrasion: (resistance to): faculty of a covering to resist to the fiction of particles and Abrasive bodies.

Accelerator: additive used to accelerate the filmation process and the hardening of the paint product.

Adhesion: it’s the resistance of a paint product that opposes to the detachment action from the support or from coating beneath.

Additives: elements that are added to products in working phase, normally in small quantities, to improve some physicochemical characteristic of the product.

Agents: atmospheric components of the atmosphere as for example oxygen, carbon dioxide, humidity, polluting substances, ultraviolet solar radiation that join to several climatic factors, are responsible to the obsolescence and the debase of various coating.

Alkaline: product with a pH greater than 7, even if in the common language are defined alkaline the products with high ph (10-12) like the product based on silicate and lime.

Asbestos: particular product of mineral origin, composed of phyllosilicate magnesium constituted by very thin fibres and very flexible that has important refractory features.

Damaged: decayed covering or support.

Fresco: painting carry out by various procedures on the plaster still fresh of the wall.

Outcropping: it happen when in drying up step, one or more components go to the surface.

Thickener: additive used to increase the viscosity product.

White spirit: vegetable turpentine essence which is the essential oil obtained by distillation of various conifers resin.