Painting and painters' materials: a book of facts for painters and those who use or deal in paint materials (1883)
Condit, Charles L, Scheller, Jacob · New York, The Railroad gazette · leaf 78
ot a chemical one; there is no linkingtogether, only sticking together of particles. Waterdoes not to any degree affect paint, but it softens theparticles of wood and the paint loses its grip on them. * Cellulose, of which wood, especially the outside of the fibres, is largely-composed, is much… … Fig. I. ^2 Painting and Painters Materials, It is the same principle applied to the minute parti-cles of the wood which we work upon when we steamwood in order to bend it. Steaming wood will not, however, bend it, nor willmere wetting peel off paint; we must have a force.This force is steam…
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