Silicate mineral paint
paint coats with mineral binding agents
Silicate mineral paints or mineral colors are paint coats with mineral binding agents. Two relevant mineral binders play a role in the field of colors: Lime, and silicate.
Under the influence of carbon dioxide, lime-based binders carbonate and water silicate-based binders solidify. Together they form calcium silicate hydrates.
Lime paints (aside from Fresco-technique) are only moderately weather resistant, so people apply them primarily in monument preservation. Mineral colors are commonly understood to be silicate paints. These paints use potassium water glass as binder. They are also called water glass paints or Keimfarben (after the inventor).
Mineral silicate paint coats are considered durable and weather resistant. Lifetimes exceeding a hundred years are possible.
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