zinc white

noun

The entire inside is lined with white paper, or, in the case of the uncorked boxes, painted with zinc white.

Take zinc white, mix it with boiled oil to about the thickness of cream, add a little drying, such as painters use.

Painters prefer the product to zinc-white chiefly because it is much more opaque and possesses a much greater covering power.

Opaque or body colour, like fresco painting, is the mixing of Chinese or zinc white with the colours.

She noted a bottle of varnish, another of zinc white, and some photographic paper in a sealed envelope.

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