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  2. Oil paint - Wikipedia

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    Oil paint is a type of slow-drying paint that consists of particles of pigment suspended in a drying oil, commonly linseed oil. For several centuries the oil painting has been perhaps the most prestigous form in Western art, but oil paint has many practical uses, mainly because it is waterproof. The earliest surviving examples of oil paint have ...

  3. Conservation and restoration of paintings - Wikipedia

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    The conservation and restoration of paintings is carried out by professional painting conservators. Paintings cover a wide range of various mediums, materials, and their supports (i.e. the painted surface made from fabric, paper, wood panel, fabricated board, or other). Painting types include fine art to decorative and functional objects ...

  4. Parma Violets - Wikipedia

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    The petals of violets have long been used in herbalism for their medicinal properties, even mentioned by Dioscorides. [3] "Violet tables", sugary lozenges flavoured with violets, were made before 1620. [4] During the 18th century, crushed violet petals, rosewater, and sugar were combined to make an early type of confectionery known as flower ...

  5. Things We Used to Think Were Completely Safe But Might ... - AOL

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    Asbestos. Asbestos was used in lots of products, from insulation to automobile clutch fittings, fake snow, fire-resistant clothing, and building materials. The naturally-occurring mineral fiber ...

  6. Maya ceramics - Wikipedia

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    Maya ceramics. Painted Classic Period vase from Sacul in Guatemala. Maya ceramics are ceramics produced in the Pre-Columbian Maya culture of Mesoamerica. The vessels used different colors, sizes, and had varied purposes. Vessels for the elite could be painted with very detailed scenes, while utilitarian vessels were undecorated or much simpler.

  7. Polyethylene terephthalate - Wikipedia

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    Polyethylene terephthalate (or poly (ethylene terephthalate), PET, PETE, or the obsolete PETP or PET-P ), is the most common thermoplastic polymer resin of the polyester family and is used in fibres for clothing, containers for liquids and foods, and thermoforming for manufacturing, and in combination with glass fibre for engineering resins. [5]

  8. The Best Oils For Baking - AOL

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    When you're baking cakes and brownies and the recipe directions tell you to add oil, which one do you reach for? Vegetable oil, canola oil and corn oil are among the most common and affordable ...

  9. Japanese pottery and porcelain - Wikipedia

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    Pottery and porcelain (陶磁器, tōjiki, also yakimono (焼きもの), or tōgei (陶芸)) is one of the oldest Japanese crafts and art forms, dating back to the Neolithic period. [ 1] Types have included earthenware, pottery, stoneware, porcelain, and blue-and-white ware. Japan has an exceptionally long and successful history of ceramic ...