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| Adhesion | The property causing one material to stick to another. |
| Barrier Coat | A coat applied which separates the substrate from contact with the topcoats. |
| Bleeding | When a dye or color absorbs through to the top layer. |
| Bloom | A bluish haze of a film usually caused by insufficient drying time of the oil stain before topcoating. |
| Blushing | A white; milky cast in a film which is caused by trapping moisture into the film. Blushing can be prevented and eliminated by |
| Blush Retarder | A reducer with slower drying properties. |
| Body | The thickness of viscosity of the coating while in liquid form. |
| Bond | The adhesion of or ability of two items to stick to one another. |
| Bridge | When a finish forms a layer over a crack or void. |
| Burn-in | Method of filling a defect in wood using a hot knife and a Nu-Glo StickŪ |
| Coat | The act of applying a coating to a surface. |
| Coating | Any material applied to a surface leaving a protective layer on that surface. e.g. lacquer; polyurethane; vinyl; acrylic; butyrate; and |
| Cold Checking | the cracking of a finish due to exposure to cold temperatures. |
| Crawling | When a coating applied tends to flow away from areas leaving them uncoated. This is usually caused by grease or oil |
| Delaminate | The separation of layers due to lack of adhesion. |
| Distressing | Fly speck spotting (and/or other age marks) in the finished surface or on the substrate. |
| Dye | A coloring material that dissolves in a system very transparent and not as color fast as a pigment. |
| Dry Hard | The elapsed time at which a coating has reached its optimum hardness |
| Fading | The loss of color due to exposure to sunlight. |
| Fast to Light | A color which is not significantly affected by exposure to sunlight. |
| Fish Eye | Pock marks or craters that show up on finished surface when silicone is present. |
| Flash point | The temperature at which a material will ignite when exposed to a source of ignition. |
| Flood | The act of very heavily applying a coating to the substrate. |
| Flow | The smoothing and leveling out of a coating. |
| French Polish | |
| Glaze | An oil based pigment which is applied between lacquer coats to accent or give a graining effect. |
| Gloss or Sheen | The shininess or reflectability of a surface. |
| Holiday | An uncoated area of a coated surface usually missed unintentionally. |
| Incompatible | Used in reference to coatings and/or stains which are not capable of being mixed with one another. |
| Leveling | The act of applying a coat which will smooth out a previously rough (orange peeled) coat. |
| Lifting | orange peel" to a "stripping |
| Non-Volatile | The solid material which is left after total solvent evaporation. |
| Nitrocellulose | The primary material used in making lacquer. |
| Opaque/Opacity | The degree of hiding of a pigmented coating. The opposite of transparent. |
| Orange Peel | A rough surface of a film similar in appearance to the skin of an orange. |
| Pigment | A finely ground; insoluble powder which contributes color to a coating - usually very color fast. |
| Pinholeing | The appearance of numerous small holes in a film; usually caused by bubbles due to heat drying of the coating. |
| Primer | A coating which is first applied to a bare surface. |
| Reducer | To add solvent in order to thin a material to a workable thickness (viscosity). |
| Sanding Sealer | A lacquer formulated to give better filling and sandability than the topcoat lacquer. |
| Substrate | The surface or material to be coated. |
| Transparent | Clear enough to see through. |
| Translucent | Allows light to pass through but not clear enough to see through. |
| Viscosity | The thickness of a coating material in its liquid form. |
| Volatile | The solvent portion of a coating. |
| Washcoat | Very thin coat of shellac or sealer. |
| Water White | A term used to describe the color of a coating in its liquid form. (Water white meaning as clear and colorless as water.) |
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