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Natural oil and wax
Penetrating finish that leaves the substrate texture and thermal behaviour largely intact rather than forming a film over it.
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. Joinery. Furniture.
Worth watching
Plant-derived oil finishes are not automatically low-emitting during cure, and oxidative drying produces aldehydes. Natural and low-emitting are separate attributes in this taxonomy for this reason.
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.
- Perceived warmth of a spacevia Thermal effusivity, Surface roughness Ra
- Autonomic downregulationvia Thermal effusivity
- Footing confidencevia Surface roughness Ra
- Perceived air freshnessvia Odour persistence
- Recovery in care settingsvia TVOC emission rate
- Respiratory comfortvia TVOC emission rate
- Sleep onset and continuityvia Thermal effusivity
- Sustained attentionvia TVOC emission rate
- Tactile comfortvia Surface roughness Ra
- Thermal comfort at contactvia Thermal effusivity