Sentences with phrase «by synthetic resins»

Further, nitrocellulose for lacquers is now being rapidly displaced by synthetic resins.

Not exact matches

Dyes came first, soon followed by paints, solvents, aspirin, sweeteners, laxatives, detergents, inks, anesthetics, cosmetics, adhesives, photographic materials, roofing, resins, and the first primitive plastics — all synthetic and all derived from coal tar, the fountainhead of commercial chemistry.

PET carpet advocates report that because plastic beverage containers are made with top quality resins as required by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration, recycled PET is superior to lower grades of virgin synthetic fibers used in making other brands of polyester carpet yarns.

Regulators are concerned because growing evidence shows that some synthetic chemicals — including those found in in insecticides, herbicides, fumigants, fungicides, detergents, resins and plasticizers — may disrupt the body's endocrine system, which controls many important functions by emitting hormones, or natural chemical messengers.

The stiffness of the initially viscous material based on synthetic resin can be determined by two hardening mechanisms: irradiation with UV light, and heat.

In fact, it has been constantly changing with synthetic resins now making their way in competition with solutions of nitrocellulose and, with more recent applications of dispersing agents, with lower surface tension, there have even appeared lacquers in which the more expensive and inflammable solvents have been replaced to a considerable extent by water.

With a unique pouring technique, Morris Louis achieved his intensely vivid hues by staining his canvases with Magna, a newly developed form of synthetic acrylic resin which fully penetrated the fabric and completely covered the fibers of his canvas to build glowing fields of voluminous color.

A very striking deep ultramarine blue work by Yves Klein (1928 - 1962), «RE 40,» a sponge and pigment in synthetic resin on panel, 78 3/4 by 59 inches, Lot 64, sold within its estimates for $ 2,095,750, another auction record.

Lot 40, «RE 1,» by Yves Klein (1928 - 1962) is a 78 3/4 - by -65-inch deep blue pigment, synthetic resin and sponges on canvas that was executed in 1958 and has a very ambitious estimate of $ 4,000,000 to $ 5,000,000.

Organised at Almine Rech Gallery by the artist DeWain Valentine, «Plastic Show» is presenting a series of works by five Californian artists (Mary Corse (b. 1945), Robert Irwin (b. 1928), Craig Kauffman (1932 — 2010), John McCracken (1934 — 2011), and DeWain Valentine (b. 1936)-RRB- who have been investigating the potential of plastic (synthetically produced resins) in art:» Known for their pioneering work with various synthetic resins and synthetic polymers during the 1960s and «70s, these artists are today recognized not only for their active roles in the development of plastics as a newly discovered medium in art, but also for their sophisticated techniques and at times even quasi-acrobatic prowess required to shape them into the seamless, translucent, luscious volumes.»

They found household enamel paint known to have been used by Pollock, but they also discovered a synthetic resin that Pollock was not known to have used.

From the rugs and the mirrors by Pistoletto, to the resin clots by Zorio; from lead and salt, ice and fire by Calzolari, to the ground and the light of Anselmo; from woods, leaves, thorns and trunks of Penone, to the fluorescent plastic of Merz; from synthetic materials which imitate or reinvent the reality and the nature of Gilardi and Pascali, to the refined conceptualisation, historical or handmade of Paolini, Piacentino and Boetti.