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Does concrete cure faster in hot or cold temperatures?

"When paint is described as "drying" it is in fact hardening by crosslinking...."

I think this is too much of a generalization? Is it true of all paints or only oil-based (say your oily outdoor gloss) paints? With water-based paints, such as emulsions, I believe it's a two-stage process involving a degree of actual drying (evaporation) followed by coming together (coalescence) of the binder particles, and there is no actual cross-linking? The paint does, literally, dry? There is a good Dulux document I found called "Drying and hardening of water based paints" that elaborates [see https://www.dulux.com.au/applicator/technical-advice/application/drying-and-hardening-of-water-based-paints/]. I am a chemist but this is not my area, so I would appreciate a second pair of eyes and brain cells. In the meantime, I am going to flag the text with a "cn" to draw attention. 45154james (talk) 14:06, 23 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]