siccative

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• Like litharge, it may be employed in the preparation of drying oils, and, being a better drier than white lead, may be substituted for it in mixing with pigments which need a siccative, as the bituminous earths. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
• The direct rays of the sun are powerfully active in rendering oils and colours siccative, and were probably resorted to before dryers were -- not always wisely -- added to oils, particularly in the warm climate of Italy. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
• The friends of deceased immediately informed, orders sent to all stations that xerotine siccative was a dangerous explosive, and should be got rid of at once.
• If they are added, for example, in the form of an emulsion to the binder then hydrolysis of the siccatives often takes place and their reaction products, which are insoluble, settle out.
• In the case of a dry sketch, he rubbed this same siccative in before reworking.
• At their return they did eat more soberly at supper than at other times, and meats more desiccative and extenuating; to the end that the intemperate moisture of the air, communicated to the body by a necessary confinitive, might by this means be corrected, and that they might not receive any prejudice for want of their ordinary bodily exercise. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
• This and the next preceding case are of great importance both as to the action of the wood in maintaining springs, and particularly as tending to prove that evergreens do not exercise the desiccative influence ascribed to them in France. Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 03 (historical)
• Tormin reports on a siccative, of which he says that it has been found valuable for floor coatings.
• These two dryers should not be employed together, since they counteract and decompose each other, forming two new substances -- acetate of zinc, which is a bad siccative, and sulphate of lead, which is insoluble and opaque. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
• The invention relates to a method for preparing a carbon siccative for producing electrodes.