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Water-based acrylic paint
The interior default. Emissions vary by an order of magnitude between formulations sold under the same low-VOC description.
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
Walls. Ceilings. Joinery.
Worth watching
Low-VOC on a paint tin usually refers to the regulatory content of the can, not to the emission rate from the applied and cured film. These are different measurements and only one of them describes what an occupant breathes.
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.
- Glare and visual comfortvia Specular gloss, Light reflectance value
- Perceived cleanlinessvia Specular gloss, Cleanability
- Recovery in care settingsvia TVOC emission rate, Cleanability
- Respiratory comfortvia TVOC emission rate, Individual VOCs of concern
- Circadian light deliveryvia Light reflectance value
- Footing confidencevia Specular gloss
- Perceived spaciousnessvia Light reflectance value
- Sleep onset and continuityvia Light reflectance value
- Sustained attentionvia TVOC emission rate