Rublev Colours Gum Turpentine 32oz
Rublev Colours Gum Turpentine 32oz
Gum Spirits of Turpentine is obtained by distilling sap from living pine trees. Turpentine has more solvency than mineral spirits or odorless mineral spirits. Its high solvent strength makes it the best choice for thinning oils and natural resins.
Rublev's pure spirits of gum turpentine is steam-distilled (rectified) from pine trees (Pinus elliottii) in Brazil, a species often used as the benchmark by which others are judged. It contains over 90% pinene, almost half of which is beta-pinene, and virtually no high-boiling constituents. It does not contain impurities found in industrial turpentine grades, making them unsuitable for artists' use. It is used with linseed or other oils as a medium, with dammar or mastic as a diluent for picture varnishes, or as a solvent for cleaning brushes and tools.
This is the traditional artists' thinner (diluent) for oil colors, mediums, and varnishes. It improves the flow, dissolves wet oil colors easily, and evaporates readily. Add directly to oil colors, mediums, or varnishes for thinning; soak brushes well to remove color or varnish.
Turpentine is considered a better solvent than mineral spirits and the best solvent for natural resins, such as dammar and mastic. It readily dissolves most of the natural varnish resins. It will not dissolve the fossil resins (copal) until they have been heat-processed to render them soluble in drying oils. Turpentine is a solvent for many of the alkyd resins. Short oil-modified alkyd resins require a more active solvent, so manufacturers use d-limonene (dipentene) or petroleum solvents.
While turpentine and mineral spirits are good brush cleaners, turpentine can remove paint that has hardened slightly. Mineral spirits will only dissolve fresh oil paint.
- SKU Number
- RUB1TRPT32
- MSRP
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$30.50 / EA - Your Price
- $27.45 / EA
- Weight
- 9.00 LB
- Quantity Available
- 2