ASTM D2090-98

Standard Test Method for Clarity and Cleanness of Paint and Ink Liquids (Withdrawn 2007)

SCOPE
1.1 This test method covers a procedure for the visual examination of any unpigmented liquid for use in paints and inks, including fatty oils and acids, drier solutions, solvents, miscellaneous chemicals, varnishes, resin solutions, clear lacquers, and other clear coatings for the presence or absence of undesirable components.
1.2 This standard may involve hazardous materials, operations, and equipment. This standard does not purport to address all of the safety problems associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety and health practices and determine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use.>
WITHDRAWN RATIONALE
This test method covers a procedure for the visual examination of any unpigmented liquid for use in paints and inks, including fatty oils and acids, drier solutions, solvents, miscellaneous chemicals, varnishes, resin solutions, clear lacquers, and other clear coatings for the presence or absence of undesirable components.
Formerly under the jurisdiction of Committee D01 on Paint and Related Coatings, Materials, and Applications, this test method was withdrawn in March 2007 in accordance with section 10.5.3.1 of the Regulations Governing ASTM Technical Committees, which requires that standards shall be updated by the end of the eighth year since the last approval date.

General Information

• Status: Withdrawn
• Publication Date: 09-Jun-1998
• Withdrawal Date: 19-Mar-2007
• ICS: 87.040 - Paints and varnishes
• Technical Committee: D01 - Paint and Related Coatings, Materials, and Applications
• Drafting Committee: D01.33 - Polymers and Resins

Relations

• Referred By: ASTM F2118-14(2020) - Standard Test Method for Constant Amplitude of Force Controlled Fatigue Testing of Acrylic Bone Cement Materials
• Effective Date: 10-Jun-1998
• Referred By: ASTM D564-87(2023) - Standard Test Methods for Liquid Paint Driers
• Effective Date: 10-Jun-1998
• Referred By: ASTM D333-01(2021) - Standard Guide for Clear and Pigmented Lacquers
• Effective Date: 10-Jun-1998

Standards Content (Sample)

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Designation:D2090–98
Standard Test Method for
Clarity and Cleanness of Paint and Ink Liquids
This standard is issued under the fixed designation D 2090; the number immediately following the designation indicates the year of
original adoption or, in the case of revision, the year of last revision. A number in parentheses indicates the year of last reapproval. A
superscript epsilon (e) indicates an editorial change since the last revision or reapproval.
1. Scope 3.1.5 turbid—a relatively great amount of nonsettling floc,
gels, suspended matter, particles, droplets, or other in-
1.1 This test method covers a procedure for the visual
soluble or separated matter, even though the liquid is
examination of any unpigmented liquid for use in paints and
translucent and transmits at least a little light.
inks, including fatty oils and acids, drier solutions, solvents,
3.1.6 hazy—a relatively small amount of nonsettling, finely
miscellaneous chemicals, varnishes, resin solutions, clear lac-
dispersed matter which is not visibly homogeneous with the
quers, and other clear coatings for the presence or absence of
mass of the liquid specified, even though the liquid is trans-
undesirable components.
parent and transmits most of the light incident upon it.
1.2 This standard does not purport to address all of the
3.1.7 clear—a complete lack of any visible nonuniformity
safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the
when viewed in mass, in bottles or test tubes, by strong
responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appro-
transmitted light.
priate safety and health practices and determine the applica-
3.1.8 clean—a complete lack of any visible nonuniformity
bility of regulatory limitations prior to use.
sometimes referred to as seeds, when viewed in thin films by
2. Referenced Documents any macroscopic or microscopic use of visible light.
2.1 ASTM Standards:
4. Summary of Test Method
D 1003 Test Method for Haze and Luminous Transmittance
4.1 The sample is visually examined in its original con-
of Transparent Plastics
tainer, in the specified sample containers, and then in a film
D 1210 TestMethodforFinenessofDispersionofPigment-
thin enough to show any nonuniformity.
Vehicle Systems
D 1545 Test Method for Viscosity of Transparent Liquids
5. Significance and Use
by Bubble Time Method
5.1 The results of the clarity and cleanness examinations are
3. Terminology used as controls in production, and for specification acceptance
of any nonpigmented liquid used in paints and inks.
3.1 Definitions of Terms Specific to This Standard:
3.1.1 There are various terms for clarity or cleanness of
6. Sampling
liquids, which are established as trade vernacular in describing
6.1 Sampling of one or more containers of a liquid is
undesirable components of a liquid. The following seven are
especially important for the validity of a clarity or cleanness
preferred over the other terms (in bold face) related to them:
test, and each type of container, such as tank car, tanktruck,
3.1.2 foreign matter—any visible material unrelated to the
drum, carboy, etc., requires its own detailed sampling proce-
true origin of the liquid specified.
dure. Temperature conditions and periods affect amounts of
3.1.3 sediment—any solid which can settle or be centri-
solidified matter which may form, or volatilized matter lost,
fuged from the main portion of the liquid, for example, foots,
such as phosphatides, waxes, or high melting acids solidified
meal, grain, gum.
fromfattyoilsoracids,orlowboilingsolventsvolatilizedfrom
3.1.4 skins—partial solid layers of material which may
varnishes, resin solutions, etc. Therefore, the precise mechan-
form, from the material itself or otherwise.
ics, the date, time and temperature of sampling, the type of
sample container and the temperature of the container, light,
and any other critical sample storage conditions shall be
This test method is under the jurisdiction of ASTM Committee D-1 on Paint
specified.
and Related Coatings, Materials, andApplications and is the direct responsibility of
Subcommittee D 01.33 on Polymers and Resins.
7. Conditioning Sample
Current edition approved June 10, 1998. Published August 1998. Originally
published as D 2090 – 62 T. Last previous edition D 2090 – 88 (1993).
7.1 Because limits may be desired on the amounts of gums
Annual Book of ASTM Standards, Vol 08.01.
or other solids which will separate from a liquid very slowly at
Annual Book of ASTM Standards, Vol 06.01.
Annual Book of ASTM Standards, Vol 06.03. various temperatures, specify limits of a time and temperature
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composition.
schedule for conditioning the specimen and for making the
Glyceride oils may contain small amounts of fatty acids, phosphatides,
examination. When not stated otherwise, the sample is pre-
waxes, and high melting glycerides, for example, stearin in fish oil;
sumed to have been stable for any period of time and observed
specification of time, temperature, and air and moisture exposure for
at 77°F (25°C).
specimen conditioning and for passing a clean test may constitute a
convenient, proximate method of limiting their composition.
8. Procedure
Solutions of varnishes, resins, driers, soaps or polymerized oils may
8.1 Examine all parts of the sample and its container under
contain tiny gel particles which spoil the appearance of high gloss paints
at least 50 ft-candles (53.8 1x) of light for any nonuniformity. and enamels made from them. The drained tube technique is particularly
useful in detecting these
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