Crossword-Solution: SICCATIVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Siccative | a. | Drying; causing to dry. |
| Siccative | n. | That which promotes drying. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “SICCATIVE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| DRYING properties, substance of | 1 answer |
| SUBSTANCE of drying properties | 1 answer |
| substance added to a liquid to promote drying | 1 answer |
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Form of quartz with coloured bands
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Hint 1 meaning
A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting
various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged
in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
Hint 2 anagram
ATGEA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with SICCATIVE (5)
Sulphate of zinc, as a siccative, is less powerful than acetate of lead, but is far preferable in a chemical sense.
These two dryers should not be employed together, since they counteract and decompose each other, forming two new substances--acetate of zinc, which is a bad siccative, and sulphate of lead, which is insoluble and opaque.
The direct rays of the sun are powerfully active in rendering oils and colours siccative, and were probably resorted to before dryers were--not always wisely--added to oils, particularly in the warm climate of Italy.
The ground may also advance or retard drying, because some pigments united by mixing or glazing, become either more or less siccative by their conjunction.
For the purpose of causing it to be more siccative, the oil was boiled with a large quantity of litharge, but by this method the white was liable to tarnish on meeting with foul air.