NOUN
- a substance that promotes drying (e.g., calcium oxide absorbs water and is used to remove moisture)
How To Use siccative In A Sentence
- If it is the slightest bit ‘green’ it has a dreadful desiccative effect on the inside of your mouth.
- Spatially complex microhabitats tend to reduce desiccative water loss by cutting down the amount of moving air the animal is exposed to.
- Sulphate of zinc, as a siccative, is less powerful than acetate of lead, but is far preferable in a chemical sense. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
- In painting it follows, and adds richness and depth to, gamboge in water, and goes well into varnish; but any lead used in rendering oils siccative, browns it, and for the same reason it is useless in tints. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
- Traditional siccatives use lead, manganese or cobalt metals to promote oxidation whereas alkyd resin is used in modern driers.
- 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. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
- Thirdly, we must apply to the bedsore a large plaster made of the desiccative red ointment and of Unguentum Comitissoe, equal parts, mixed together, to ease his pain and dry the ulcer; and he must have a little pillow of down, to keep all pressure off it. The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)
- The manganese-based siccative was highly efficient, but the film obtained was poor quality.
- Thirdly, we must apply to the bedsore a large plaster made of the desiccative red ointment and of Unguentum Comitiss, equal parts, mixed together, to ease his pain and dry the ulcer; and he must have a little pillow of down, to keep all pressure off it . The Journey to Flanders. 1569
- The destruction of the vegetative cover exposes the soil to the desiccative effects of hot, dry wind, resulting in dust storms, the formation of sand dunes, and other forms of severe wind erosion.
