Automotive paint

Automotive paint

Automotive paint and auto body works.

Industry: Automotive

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Pigment

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An insoluble finely ground powder, either natural, synthetic, inorganic or organic that provides color, hardness, durability, hiding and corrosion resistance to paint.

Pickling

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Also known as Wrinkling, Puckering or Shriveling. Fault condition where the surface of the paint wrinkles like the surface of a prune.

Photochemically reactive

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Organic solvents that react with ultra violet light to form oxidants such as ozone and smog.

Pearls

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Finishes which include mica flakes in addition to the pigment and binder.

Passivation

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The conversion of a metal surface to a less reactive state. A process used to reduce the corrosion rate of a metal surface.

A measure of the roughness of the abrasive paper. For example, a grade of 80 would be very course, while 600 or 800 grade of paper would be very fine. Grades range from 40 (production paper) or 80 ...