Using Chalk Instead of Paints in Paper Plaster

N. Nutt; L. Nei; M. Olle

doi:10.2478/lpts-2025-0031

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Using Chalk Instead of Paints in Paper Plaster

Latvian Journal of Physics and Technical Sciences

Volume 62 (2025): Issue 4 (August 2025)

By: N. Nutt, L. Nei and M. Olle

Open Access

|Jul 2025

Abstract

Instead of using paint, it is possible to manufacture white paper plaster by adding chalk to its ingredients. The moisture buffer values (MBVs) of paper plaster mixtures with chalk ranged from 1.8 to 2.9. The higher the chalk content was, the lower the MBV of the paper plaster was. Only the mix with the highest chalk content, where the percentage of chalk was 90, had a moisture buffering capacity below 2.0, i.e., not excellent (MBV > 2.0).

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/lpts-2025-0031 | Journal eISSN: 2255-8896 | Journal ISSN: 0868-8257

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Language: English

Page range: 80 - 86

Published on: Jul 29, 2025

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Keywords:

Chalk,

moisture buffer value,

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Physics,

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