Sentence examples for for varnish from inspiring English sources

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The resins are used for varnish.

Rosin, also called colophony, or colophonium, translucent, brittle, friable resin used for varnish and in manufacturing many products.

While for Varnish it meant the end of the Olympics, Pendleton still has two more events to come in the velodrome.

Elie takes to building sexually symbolic violins by hand, furiously searching for the secret formula for varnish used by the violinmakers of Cremona; Sisif takes to piloting his no-less-Freudian express train with increasing, and drunken, abandon.

Letters between [William] Small and Watt were a kaleidoscope of invention and ideas, touching on steam-engines and cylinders; cobalt as a semi-metal; how to boil down copal, the resin of tropical trees, for varnish; lenses and clocks and colours for enamels; alkali and canals; acids and vapours — as well as the boil on Watt's nose.

On one page I found a mathematical formula for string tension that triggered terrifying flashbacks from high-school physics class; on another, an eighteenth-century recipe for varnish that, with ingredients like mastic, dragon's blood, saffron, and rectified spirits, sounded more like a witch's brew than something to put on an instrument.

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Artists use it as a pigment and as a colouring matter for varnishes.

In 1803 Sheraton, who had been ordained a Baptist minister in 1800, published his Cabinet Dictionary (with plates), containing An Explanation of All Terms Used in the Cabinet, Chair and Upholstery Branches with Dictionary for Varnishing, Polishing and Gilding.

Cashew shell liquid, a skin irritant, is made into resins for varnishes; kills mosquito larvae; can be impregnated in wood as a varnish to preserve against insect attack; is used in automotive brake linings and clutch facings; is used as a laminating agent for paper, cloth, and glass fibres; and is used to treat cement floors and synthetic rubber to retard deterioration.

They were primarily used for varnishing purposes [34].

It was determined that using Wolmanit-CB for impregnating and synthetic varnish for varnishing would be better according to the results.

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