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Definitions of shellac in various dictionaries:
noun - lac purified by heating and filtering
noun - a thin varnish made by dissolving lac in ethanol
verb - cover with shellac
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| An ingredient in many products including sealing wax & hair spray, it's derived from the secretions of the lac insect |
| This resin, a natural polymer used as a varnish, is produced by insects in India and Myanmar |
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Shellac is a resin secreted by the female lac bug, on trees in the forests of India and Thailand. It is processed and sold as dry flakes (pictured) and dissolved in alcohol to make liquid shellac, which is used as a brush-on colorant, food glaze and wood finish. Shellac functions as a tough natural primer, sanding sealant, tannin-blocker, odour-blocker, stain, and high-gloss varnish. Shellac was once used in electrical applications as it possesses good insulation qualities and it seals out moisture. Phonograph and 78 rpm gramophone records were made of it until they were replaced by vinyl long-playing records from the 1950s onwards. * From the time it replaced oil and wax finishes in the 19th century, shellac was one of the dominant wood finishes in the western world until it was largely replaced by nitrocellulose lacquer in the 1920s and 1930s. |