Film 1: Paint/History

1. Paint is a liquid that dries to form a solid protected film. This basic transformation makes paint easy to apply, but difficult to remove. There are three components to paint: binder (holds everything together), pigment (color), and solvent (helps paint flow as it is applied).

2. I believe that the most significant evolution of paint is the discovery of titanium dioxide, latex resin, and water mixed together. Ti-02 prevents damage from the surface by blocking ultra violet rays. The good thing about this is that it is safer than lead and plentiful. Lead makes an excellent white paint, but is harmful to the nervous system. At Du point, they cook dry ti-02 in furnaces and turns it white. After WWII, latex resin was discovered. It dries quick when the water evaporates. It was first sold in 1947. The biggest paint factory in Newark produces vast amounts of the mixture of the three. Later they add the pigment, but also commence to break it down to get accurate colors.

3. A painting is adding pigment, paint, chalk, etc. to any surface like building, walls or canvases. It is important that a painting lasts for 500 years and 30,000 years because they yield bright and vivid colors. They also are very stable. If paintings last this long, scientists can examine and continue with the ever-growing development of paint. Scientists need this information to continue to find better solvents and binders for paint. During the earliest of times (caveman years), they found genius ways to produce paint using tempura (water and egg yolk) and synthetic Vermilion. Either way painters still relied on the minerals from the ground.

New Question: What is the process that painters use to create the thin layer of paint that covers the cars we drive today?