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  2. Benjamin Moore & Co. - Wikipedia

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    Benjamin Moore & Co., also known as Benjamin Moore, is an American manufacturer of paints, stains, and other architectural coatings. The company was founded in 1883 in New York, N.Y. [ 2 ] and is currently headquartered in Montvale, N.J. [ 3 ] Benjamin Moore has major manufacturing and distribution operations throughout the United States and ...

  3. Sandblasting - Wikipedia

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    It is used to clean calcium deposits from pool tiles or any other surfaces, remove embedded fungus, and brighten grout color. It is also used in auto body work to remove paint. In removing paint for auto body work, bead blasting is preferred over sand blasting, as sand blasting tends to create a greater surface profile than bead blasting.

  4. Silicate mineral paint - Wikipedia

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    The binder is a combination of silica sol and water glass. The organic fraction is limited to 5 mass percent similar to dispersion silicate paint allowing for chemical setting and retaining of the silicate specific advantages. The sol silicate paint allows use on non-mineral plaster. [4] For these the bonding occurs chemically and physically.

  5. Industrial mineral - Wikipedia

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    Industrial resources (minerals) are geological materials that are mined for their commercial value, which are not fuel (fuel minerals or mineral fuels) and are not sources of metals (metallic minerals) but are used in the industries based on their physical and/or chemical properties. [1]

  6. Surfactants in paint - Wikipedia

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    The solvent also modifies the curing rate and viscosity of the paint in its liquid state. There are two types of paint: solvent-borne and water-borne paints. Solvent-borne paints use organic solvents as the primary vehicle carrying the solid components in a paint formulation, whereas water-borne paints use water as the continuous medium.

  7. Architectural coatings - Wikipedia

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    For example, simple paint or primers can often be applied using brushes or rollers, and many people successfully complete such projects themselves. [5] Most masonry surfaces can be treated an exterior wall coating, such as render, pebbledash, stone, stucco or brick.

  8. PPG Industries - Wikipedia

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    PPG expanded quickly. By 1900, known as the "Glass Trust", it included 10 plants, had a 65 percent share of the U.S. plate glass market, and had become the nation's second largest producer of paint. [4] Today, known as PPG Industries, the company is a multibillion-dollar, Fortune 500 corporation with 150 manufacturing locations around the world.

  9. Sandpaper - Wikipedia

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    Sandpaper is produced in a range of grit sizes and is used to remove material from surfaces, whether to make them smoother (for example, in painting and wood finishing), to remove a layer of material (such as old paint), or sometimes to make the surface rougher (for example, as a preparation for gluing). The grit size of sandpaper is usually ...