siccative in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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As such, the old masters found ways of extending the natural advantages of its emulsion to create lean, siccative, smoothly transitional, semi-transparent layers of paint.
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The source of the lead probably is a lead-based siccative that had been added to the varnish.
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One common measure of the siccative (drying) property of oils is iodine number, which is an indicator of the number of double bonds in the oil.
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Oil paint dries at different rates due to the differing siccative properties of the constituent pigment.
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