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  2. Hiding power - Wikipedia

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    Two red pigments are used to coat two vertical panels, both black at the bottom and white at the top. The paint layer on the right panel has higher hiding, making the black and white grounds almost indistinguishable. The hiding power is an ability of a paint to hide the surface that the paint was applied to. [1]

  3. Lutz jump - Wikipedia

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    The Lutz is a figure skating jump, named after Alois Lutz, an Austrian skater who performed it in 1913.It is a toepick-assisted jump with an entrance from a back outside edge and landing on the back outside edge of the opposite foot.

  4. Color chart - Wikipedia

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    A color chart or color reference card is a flat, physical object that has many different color samples present. They can be available as a single-page chart, or in the form of swatchbooks or color-matching fans. Typically there are two different types of color charts: Color reference charts are intended

  5. Volume solid - Wikipedia

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    This is an important concept when using paint industrially to calculate the cost of painting. [1] It can be said that it is the real volume of paint. Here is the formula by which one can calculate the volume solid of paint, (Total sum by volume of each solid ingredient in paint x 100%)/ Total sum by volume of each ingredient in paint.

  6. Tint, shade and tone - Wikipedia

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    When mixing colored light (additive color models), the achromatic mixture of spectrally balanced red, green, and blue (RGB) is always white, not gray or black. When we mix colorants, such as the pigments in paint mixtures, a color is produced which is always darker and lower in chroma, or saturation, than the parent colors. This moves the mixed ...

  7. Metallic paint - Wikipedia

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    "Flop", or "flip-flop", refers to the difference between the amount or hue of light reflected at different angles from a metallic paint surface. The differences are caused by the size and reflectivity of the flakes in the paint, and also by their orientation and the degree to which they are all oriented in the same direction. Historically, it ...

  8. Paint sheen - Wikipedia

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    The sheen [4] or gloss level of a paint is principally determined by the ratio of resinous, adhesive binder, which solidifies after drying, and solid, powdery pigment.The more binder the coating contains, the more regular reflection will be made from its smooth surface; conversely, with less binder, grains of pigment become exposed to the surface, scattering the light and providing matte ...

  9. RAL colour standard - Wikipedia

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    RAL Colours logo. RAL is a colour management system used in Europe that is created and administered by the German RAL gGmbH [] [1] (RAL non-profit LLC), which is a subsidiary of the German RAL Institute [].