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Lacquer and UV-cured coating
Film-forming clear coat. Changes gloss, hardness and contact response of whatever it covers.
Decisive attributes
The attributes that most determine how this class behaves and how it is experienced. No values are shown, because a value belongs to a product and not to a class. Two products of the same material can differ from each other by more than the material differs from its neighbours.
Typical application
Wood floors. Casegoods. Panelling.
Worth watching
A lacquered wood surface may share almost none of its tactile or thermal attributes with the unfinished wood used in the research literature, while being specified and described as the same material.
Evidence
No record in the research corpus tests human response to this material class. Its physical behaviour may be well understood and its properties may be entirely predictable from the attributes above. That is a different thing from evidence that a person responds to it, and this library does not convert one into the other. The absence is shown rather than filled.
Outcomes it could bear on
Outcomes whose material levers overlap this class. This is a structural relationship in the ontology, not a finding: it says the property is relevant to the outcome, not that this material produces it.
- Autonomic downregulationvia Thermal effusivity
- Footing confidencevia Specular gloss
- Glare and visual comfortvia Specular gloss
- Perceived cleanlinessvia Specular gloss
- Perceived warmth of a spacevia Thermal effusivity
- Recovery in care settingsvia TVOC emission rate
- Respiratory comfortvia TVOC emission rate
- Sleep onset and continuityvia Thermal effusivity
- Sustained attentionvia TVOC emission rate
- Thermal comfort at contactvia Thermal effusivity