Acrylic Enamel ?

[bobby_hamill]

How can paint be called acrylic enamel ?
I thought it was rather acrylic or enamel but not both ?

Bobby

 

[neil_w]

Nowadays it seems like everything is acrylic. Acrylic Lacquer, Acrylic Enamel, simple Acrylics.

 

[heada]

An acrylic paint that uses a polymer that when cured, gives a result similar to enamel? Just guessing.

 

[neil_w]

This is from Wikipedia, seems useful:

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There is no generally accepted definition or standard for use of the term enamel paint, and not all enamel-type paints may use it.

Typically the term "enamel paint" is used to describe oil-based covering products, usually with a significant amount of gloss in them, however recently many latex or water-based paints have adopted the term as well. The term today means "hard surfaced paint" and usually is in reference to paint brands of higher quality, floor coatings of a high gloss finish, or spray paints. Most enamel paints are alkyd resin based. Some enamel paints have been made by adding varnish to oil-based paint.

 

[Nathan]

All enamel paints have a binder that polymerizes as it cures. If the binder is an acrylic resin then it is an acrylic enamel. There are other kinds of enamels with different binders, like urethane enamel. Or epoxy floor coating, which is an enamel with an epoxy binder.