Methanol is known as denatured alcohol. It is the most common paint thinner for shellac. Methanol is used to strip varnishes. Mineral spirits is the stripper used for painted surfaces.
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Methanol is a type of alcohol that is used as a solvent or a fuel. It is not typically used as a paint thinner, as other solvents like mineral spirits or acetone are more commonly used for this purpose. Let me know if you need more information.
Joseph Griffith in 1927 is credited with inventing paint thinner.
No, the odor of paint thinner is a chemical change because it involves the molecules of the paint thinner reacting with the air, producing volatile organic compounds that create the smell.
Paint thinner? There are two basic paint thinners on the market. The old timey one is turpentine. The process of making it is to extract the resin from pine trees then distill the resin to extract the turpentine from it. Turpentine is expensive, so the modern paint thinner is mineral spirits, which is made out of hydrocarbons and hexane.
I guess it depends on which solvent is used as a paint thinner. For example, the chemical name of Acetone is "dimethyl ketone" or "2-propanone", while some of the chemical names of a mineral spirit (also named white spirit) are "mineral turpentine" or "solvent naphtha".
paint thinner is any solvent used either to thin paint or cleanup after finishing painting, typically a mixture of organic solvents with mineral spirits being a major componentmethyl ethyl ketone is an organic solvent, may or may not be a component in a given brand of paint thinner, also available as a separate product