Volatile Solvents and Thinners used in the Paint and Varnish Industries

Abstract

IN less than 140 pages of text the author has attempted the task of compiling “for reference and comparison detailed information as to the nature, preparation and properties of every solvent of industrial importance in the paint and allied industries.” His sixty-odd substances are broadly classified under the heading of petroleum and coal-tar hydrocarbons, hydrocarbon chlorides, terpenes, alcohols, ketones, ethers, esters, and in addition, carbon disulphide. His claim that his list of individual solvents includes every one of the type indicated is scarcely correct, especially in the United States, where the lacquer trade has made enormous strides in recent years. There is a final short chapter on the general significance of the tests for solvents, with some theoretical considerations involved in their use.

Volatile Solvents and Thinners used in the Paint and Varnish Industries.

By Noël Heaton. (Oil and Colour Chemistry Monographs.) Pp. 158. (London: Ernest Benn, Ltd., 1925.) 15s. net.