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Driers for Paints
Aluminum
Aluminum driers are effective as through driers. They function as cross-linking agents becoming an intimate part of the dried film. However, they are never used alone and require a surface drier such as cobalt or manganese to prevent surface tack.
Aluminum driers, in combination with standard oxidative surface driers, provide enhanced through dry, better pigment wetting and dispersion, greater water resistance higher gloss retention and less discoloration.
A limitation to the use of aluminum driers is that they are more resin specific and tend to build viscosity in systems high in acid number and/or hydroxyl number.
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