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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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZAEMEC
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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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.