How To Use Siccative In A Sentence
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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In the case of a dry sketch, he rubbed this same siccative in before reworking.
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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
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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)
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Tormin reports on a siccative, of which he says that it has been found valuable for floor coatings.
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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
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The invention relates to a method for preparing a carbon siccative for producing electrodes.
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Siccatives in paint, varnish and lacquer, although not siccatives containing lead carbonate and lead sulphate 1.
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Sometimes easier words are changed into harder; as, burial, into sepulture or interment; dry [2], into desiccative; dryness, into siccity or aridity; fit, into paroxism; for the easiest word, whatever it be, can never be translated into one more easy. '
Life Of Johnson
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However, the crosslinking of drying oils by siccatives to form a so-called varnish is something entirely different from the crosslinking of epoxy resins described in the following.
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When these driers are dissolved in aliphatic or aromatic hydrocarbons, they are known as siccatives.
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Sometimes easier words are changed into harder; as, burial, into sepulture or interment; dry [2], into desiccative; dryness, into siccity or aridity; fit, into paroxism; for the easiest word, whatever it be, can never be translated into one more easy. '
Life Of Johnson
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It is an excellent dryer in oil, and has often been used as a siccative with other colours, but it cannot safely be so employed except with the ochres, earths, and blacks in general.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
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Colored metal siccatives can also contribute to the discoloration and/or yellowing of linseed oil.
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These proteins are expressed in plants during times of desiccative stress, and are thought to bind water and protect the cellular membrane from drying.
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In fact, in most soils, there are counteracting influences which neutralize, more or less effectually, the desiccative action of roots, and in general it is as true as it was in Seneca's time, that "the shadiest grounds are the moistest.
The Earth as Modified by Human Action
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Questi dunque bolliti con altre sue misture gli fecero la vernice ch 'egli, e tutti pittori del mondo aveano lungamente desiderata "--" found that linseed and nut oil were the most siccative.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845
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Dryers, or siccatives, can be added to the oil-based paint to speed its drying time.
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Thus some explanations are unavoidably reciprocal or circular, as _hind, the female of the stag; stag, the male of the hind_: sometimes easier words are changed into harder, as _burial_ into _sepulture, or interment, drier_ into _desiccative, dryness_ into _siccity_ or
Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations
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Spatially complex microhabitats tend to reduce desiccative water loss by cutting down the amount of moving air the animal is exposed to.
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Sulphate of zinc, as a siccative, is less powerful than acetate of lead, but is far preferable in a chemical sense.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
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In painting it follows, and adds richness and depth to, gamboge in water, and goes well into varnish; but any lead used in rendering oils siccative, browns it, and for the same reason it is useless in tints.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
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Traditional siccatives use lead, manganese or cobalt metals to promote oxidation whereas alkyd resin is used in modern driers.
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For the purpose of causing it to be more siccative, the oil was boiled with a large quantity of litharge, but by this method the white was liable to tarnish on meeting with foul air.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
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Thirdly, we must apply to the bedsore a large plaster made of the desiccative red ointment and of Unguentum Comitissoe, equal parts, mixed together, to ease his pain and dry the ulcer; and he must have a little pillow of down, to keep all pressure off it.
The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)
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The manganese-based siccative was highly efficient, but the film obtained was poor quality.
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Thirdly, we must apply to the bedsore a large plaster made of the desiccative red ointment and of Unguentum Comitiss, equal parts, mixed together, to ease his pain and dry the ulcer; and he must have a little pillow of down, to keep all pressure off it
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The Journey to Flanders. 1569
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The destruction of the vegetative cover exposes the soil to the desiccative effects of hot, dry wind, resulting in dust storms, the formation of sand dunes, and other forms of severe wind erosion.
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If it is the slightest bit ‘green’ it has a dreadful desiccative effect on the inside of your mouth.
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The metallic part of the siccative accelerates absorption of atmospheric oxygen, catalyses the formation of free radicals, and the binder reacts - dries more rapidly.
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It is an admirable dryer, and has much the same effect as litharge in rendering oils siccative.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
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-- When frequently extinguished in water, it imparts a considerable desiccative power to it.
Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine
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The composition of the powder should be such as to permit of its liberal use, thereby affording mechanical protection to the wound as well as exerting a desiccative effect.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
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This once-promising art district succumbs to vigorous development and its concomitant desiccative effect.
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A siccative surely has great value for those of us who live by paint.
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This pure cobalt siccative accelerates the oxidative drying of the oil.
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The ground may also advance or retard drying, because some pigments united by mixing or glazing, become either more or less siccative by their conjunction.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
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In fact, in most soils, there are counteracting influences which neutralize, more or less effectually, the desiccative action of roots, and in general it is as true as it was in Seneca's time, that "the shadiest grounds are the moistest [63].
Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 03 (historical)
