Shellac
Offer type: salePublished: 23.05.2015
| Company: | Yedina merezha |
| Seller: |  Edinaya set' |
| Phones: |  404-66-66 Show phone |
| Address: | Ukraine, Kyiv |
Natural resin secreted by the insect lacquer scale insects (Laccifer lacca), parasitic on some tropical and subtropical trees.
Shellac used for making varnishes, insulating materials and photos.
Used in pyrotechnics as a combustible substance, for example: signal lights (green fire: 85% barium chlorate, a 15% shellac), tracers (tracer composition: 55 % — barium nitrate, 35% magnesium, 10 % — shellac).
Shellac is edible and is used as a glaze for coating tablets, candy, etc (oboznachilas in the composition as a food additive (E-904).
The varnish of shellac is used to cover furniture, as usually applied in the alcohol that causes severe swelling of the oil paint layer and drying too quickly.
Today shellac is rarely used as a finishing material, except the superior restoration of antique furniture (which in itself must say something about its properties). This is a very big misunderstanding, because shellac is still one of the best finishing materials in most of the works related to wood and restore the finish.
