siccative

Due to less increase in pile-temperature during the oxidative drying phase, the drying performance has improved with the new siccative system.

Samlicki's report on her physical surroundings provides a tentative bridge between her psyche and her material possessions: In front of the painter is a palette, broken in half and lying in the center of a tall three-legged table that also includes paint boxes, cigarettes, matches, small flasks of Harlem siccative (a chemical compound--BS), and oil paints.

We know what the evolution of painting owes to the discovery of perspective, on the one hand, and to the invention of siccatives, on the other.

He added siccatives to make the oil paint dry faster and this soon turned them into leathery drak hides.