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Category: Solvents

Daily Quiz (41)

Researchers with the Technical University of Denmark used a computer-aided product design method for the design and solvent selection of what?

True or false: The term "exempt solvents" refers to solvents that not included in the Toxic Substances Control Act.

True or false: A coalescing solvent has a low boiling point.

True or false: Solvent-resistance, as shown by a solvent rub test, means that coatings are sufficiently cured for service.

True or false: Methyl ethyl ketone is an oxygenated solvent.

True or false: The last solvent in a solvent blend to evaporate from an applied coating film is called a retarder.

True or false: The last solvent in a solvent blend to evaporate from an applied coating film is called the retarder solvent.

What causes solvent popping?

What is the term used to describe solvents with limited photochemical reactivity?

True or false: In a solvent blend, the last solvent to evaporate from a coating is called a retarding solvent.

True or false: Exposure to solvents used in paints can cause hearing loss.

True or false: Polar solvents can be used to make paint sufficiently conductive for electrostatic spraying.

True or false: A solvent with a low boiling point evaporates more slowly than one with a higher boiling point.

Solvents with negligible photochemical reactivity have what status?

The last solvent in a solvent blend to evaporate from an applied coating film is called what?

True or false: Solvent cleaning of steel is recommended to be used after other surface preparation methods such as abrasive blast cleaning.

When you add exempt solvents as thinners to a high solids coating, what happens to the VOC content?

True or false: Generally speaking, chlorinated hydrocarbon solvents are toxic.

True or false: MEK is specified for use in the ASTM solvent rub test for organic zinc-rich coatings.

True or false: “Solvent pop” occurs because of hackles in a steel substrate.

Which of the following is an oxygenated solvent?

What is the content of the non-mandatory appendix of SSPC-SP 1, Solvent Cleaning, added during the 2015 revision of the standard?

True or false: Inorganic zinc-rich coatings are very resistant to solvents and oils.

Why does the EPA make some solvents exempt from VOC calculations?

True or false: Some coatings become solvent-resistant, as shown by a solvent rub test, before they are sufficiently cured for service.

What is the term used to describe solvents with limited photochemical reactivity?

True or false: “Solvent pop” occurs because of hackles in a steel substrate.

The last solvent in a solvent blend to evaporate from an applied coating film is called what?

What is an exempt solvent?

Retained water-soluble solvents within a coating film in immersion or continuous high moisture service will, most likely, lead to what kind of failure?

A solvent rub test is used on coatings for what main purpose?

What solvent is used in the solvent rub test for cure of inorganic zinc coatings?

What is solvent popping?

Anatase and rutile are types of what paint component?

True or False: Exempt solvents are highly photochemically reactive.

What is an exempt solvent?

What is meant by the word “exempt” in the phrase “exempt solvent?”

Inside a confined space, where do solvent vapors normally collect?

Which of the following solvents is not a hydrocarbon type?

When you add non-exempt solvents as thinners to a high solids coating, what happens to the VOC content?

Which of the following is not an oxygenated solvent?

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