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== Description == | == Description == | ||
| − | A component added to a liquid to decrease its surface tension and thus increase its ability to wet, or spread, over a solid surface. Wetting agents are often added to watercolor paints and photographic film developing solutions. Examples of wetting agents are: [ | + | A component added to a liquid to decrease its surface tension and thus increase its ability to wet, or spread, over a solid surface. Wetting agents are often added to watercolor paints and photographic film developing solutions. Examples of wetting agents are: [[surfactant|Surfactants]], [[soap|Soaps]], [[alcohol|Alcohols]], [[gum%20arabic|gum arabic]], [[oxgall|oxgall]], [[fatty%20acid|Fatty acids]]. |
| − | == | + | == Resources and Citations == |
* R. J. Gettens, G.L. Stout, ''Painting Materials, A Short Encyclopaedia'', Dover Publications, New York, 1966 | * R. J. Gettens, G.L. Stout, ''Painting Materials, A Short Encyclopaedia'', Dover Publications, New York, 1966 | ||
Latest revision as of 11:24, 3 November 2020
Description
A component added to a liquid to decrease its surface tension and thus increase its ability to wet, or spread, over a solid surface. Wetting agents are often added to watercolor paints and photographic film developing solutions. Examples of wetting agents are: Surfactants, Soaps, Alcohols, Gum arabic, Oxgall, Fatty acids.
Resources and Citations
- R. J. Gettens, G.L. Stout, Painting Materials, A Short Encyclopaedia, Dover Publications, New York, 1966
- G.S.Brady, Materials Handbook, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1971 Comment: p. 866
- Ralph Mayer, A Dictionary of Art Terms and Techniques, Harper and Row Publishers, New York, 1969 (also 1945 printing)
- Richard S. Lewis, Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 10th ed., 1993
- Richard C. Wolbers, Nanette T. Sterman, Chris Stavroudis, Notes for Workshop on New Methods in the Cleaning of Paintings, J.Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles, 1990
- Matt Roberts, Don Etherington, Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books: a Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington DC, 1982
- Bernard Toale, The Art of Papermaking, Davis Publications, Portland OR, 1983
- Random House, Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, Grammercy Book, New York, 1997
- Art and Architecture Thesaurus Online, http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/aat/, J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles, 2000