Automotive paint

Automotive paint

Automotive paint and auto body works.

Industry: Automotive

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polishing

Automotive; Automotive paint

The action of rubbing a painted finish to a very high gloss (or shiny) finish.

plasticizer

Automotive; Automotive paint

A substance added to paint when spraying or coating plastics. This enables the paint to become more flexible and move with the plastic. This additive stops the paint from drying rigid and avoids ...

pin hole

Automotive; Automotive paint

Paint imperfection resembling a hole about the size of the head of a straight pin, caused by solvent entrapment or air bubbles.

pigment

Automotive; Automotive paint

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

pickling

Automotive; Automotive paint

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

photochemically reactive

Automotive; Automotive paint

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

phosphoric acid

Automotive; Automotive paint

An acid commonly used as a catalyst to speed up the cure of some baking finishes, usually alkyd/nitrogen resin combinations. Also a cleaner for ferrous metals.