There are retarders to slow drying and extend workability time and flow releases to increase color-blending ability.

Designed with a retarder, slow drying medium, or other proprietary mediums that allow the paints to be reopened, these paints can take anywhere from a few hours to a few days, or even a few weeks to dry completely.

While acrylic retarders can slow drying time to several hours, it remains a relatively fast-drying medium, and the addition of too much acrylic retarder can prevent the paint from ever drying properly.

* A glaze is an additive used with paint to slow drying time and increase translucency, as in faux painting and Art Painting.

They may line the ejection channel, stopping the slime from sticking to the organism when it is secreted ; or they may slow the drying process long enough for the slime to reach its target.

Oil paint is most suitable to the impasto painting technique, due to its thickness and slow drying time.

Enamels, however, are slow drying.

The development of oil painting technique by Jan van Eyck and other Northern European artists made it possible to paint everyday objects in this hyper-realistic fashion, owing to the slow drying, mixing, and layering qualities of oil colors.

However, the difficulty in acquiring and working the materials meant that they were rarely used ( and indeed the slow drying was seen as a disadvantage ).

These mediums improve flow ( i. e., make the thinned paint less runny and more easily controlled ), can slow or speed up drying time.

It is generally cut into small billets or logs with its sharply demarcated bright yellow white sapwood left on to assist in the slow drying so as to prevent cracks developing.

* Acrylic retarder, a chemical agent added to fine art acrylic paint to slow its short drying time

If a high viscous paste and slow drying is required like in screen-printing processes PEDOT: PSS can also be supplied in high boiling solvents like propanediol.

The Riksdag, however, found the amalgamation process too slow, and decided to speed it up by ending the voluntary aspect.

One notable aspect of this city includes Shoudai pottery, an art form almost completely exclusive to Arao, involving slow kilning and under glazing.

Zaslaw adds: " The version without clarinets must also have been performed, for the reorchestrated version of two passages in the slow movement, which exists in Mozart's hand, must have resulted from his having heard the work and discovered an aspect needing improvement.

The most notable aspect of this race was the alteration of the famous Eau Rouge corner into a slow chicane, due to safety fears after the Senna / Ratzenberger accidents.

One of the reasons why Sweet-Parker reconnection is slow is that the aspect ratio of the reconnection layer is very large in high Lundquist number plasmas.

The relatively slow timescale on which delayed neutrons appear is an important aspect for the design of nuclear reactors, as it allows the reactor power level to be controlled via the gradual, mechanical movement of control rods.

A remarkable aspect of synaptogenesis is the fact that motoneurons are able to distinguish between fast and slow-twitch muscle fibers ; fast-twitch muscle fibers are innervated by " fast " motoneurons, and slow-twitch muscle fibers are innervated by " slow " motoneurons.

Gliders are usually slow in flight and have high aspect ratio.

British Biograph's Panorama of Ealing from a Moving Tram ( 1901 ) is remarkable for its slow pace, high angle and the widescreen aspect of the 68mm film, whereas Danish film maker Thomas S. Hermanson's Sporvognene i Århus ( 1904 ) is remarkable for its speed and odd angles.

' Nuages ' renders the immutable aspect of the sky and the slow, solemn motion of the clouds, fading away in grey tones lightly tinged with white.

The slow melodic development of the raga in Vilambit laya slow tempo was the most characteristic aspect of his music.

When the oil: water coefficient is high, there will be little anaesthetic in the blood, so elimination will be slow, giving a prolonged hangover effect.

The Standard Oil Company was slow to appreciate the economic potential of the Spindletop oil field, and the Gulf Coast generally, which gave greater opportunity to others ; Spindletop became the birthplace of oil giants Texaco and Gulf Oil.

Due to a series of ill fortuned policy decisions concerning military expenditures and mining industries and the radical changes in international oil prices by the late 1970s, the North Korean economy began to slow down.

A Buchholz relay is a safety device sensing the accumulation of gas in large oil-filled transformers, which will alarm on slow accumulation of gas or shut down the transformer if gas is produced rapidly in the transformer oil.

A study of fruit fly wings designed to understand how the wings produce lift was performed using a large tank of mineral oil and wings 100 times larger than actual size, in order to slow down the wing beats and make the vortices generated by the insect wings easier to see and understand.

A slow leak of highly flammable hydraulic oil was ignited by the burning heater, which in turn melted the plastic fluid lines further feeding the flames, and also resulting in the hydraulic pressure loss which caused the train to stop and the doors to fail.

Polyurethane may also be applied over a straight oil finish, but because of the relatively slow curing time of oils, the emission of certain chemical byproducts, and the need for exposure to oxygen from the air, care must be taken that the oils are sufficiently cured to accept the polyurethane.

To recover the initiative, the Colonel ordered an air attack upon Guatemala City ; the desultory attack upon the national capital failed — a slow aeroplane only managed to bomb a small oil tank, which fire the defenders quickly extinguished.

This rate of process can be very slow, depending on the oil.

The game includes many obstacles, such as oil slicks that send players spinning, puddles of water that cause players to slide out of control, sand traps and " slow cones " that slow players down, large cones that bring players to a complete halt, and walls of tires that players bounce off.

A drawback of oil prints was that the gelatin used was too slow to permit an enlarger to be used, so that negatives had to be the same dimensions as the positives.

So where is the oil going to come from ?.... While many regions of the world offer great oil opportunities, the Middle East with two thirds of the world's oil and the lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies, even though companies are anxious for greater access there, progress continues to be slow.

The Jevons paradox is sometimes used to argue that energy conservation efforts are futile, for example, that more efficient use of oil will lead to increased demand, and will not slow the arrival or the effects of peak oil.

This realization was quite slow, and did not really grasp the attention of the oil industry until the late 1920s when there were several lawsuits alleging that wells drilled from a rig on one property had crossed the boundary and were penetrating a reservoir on an adjacent property.

Intermediate rates between water and oil can be obtained with water containing 10-30 % UCON from DOW, a substance with an inverse solubility which therefore deposits on the object to slow the rate of cooling.

Since the 1970s, Nigeria has seen a slow, but steady, increase in the immigrant Filipino population drawn by the oil industry.

The thinly sliced scallion bulbs and ginger are caramelized by slow cooking and mixed with chillies and little coconut oil.