What can you do with 20 years of ink, and what can you add to the ink to dry quickly?

1. The main raw materials of ink are charcoal smoke, rubber and additives, which are generally processed by machinery.

2. There are many kinds of charcoal smoke, including various minerals, plants and animal raw materials through combustion or thermal decomposition. Oil smoke ink began in the Southern Tang Dynasty, to the Song Dynasty was popular in the world, the ancients had to pick vegetable oil, soybean oil, lard, soap oil, sesame oil, tung oil smoke to make ink, which to tung oil refining smoke for ink, the ink color written is black and bright, durable.

3. In addition to animal glue, more vegetable glue (gum arabic) or various synthetic rubbers such as acrylic rubber, polyol resin, etc. In the past dynasties, deer horn glue, fish maw glue, kraft glue, etc., have been used to make the particles of carbon ink stick together, so that they can be made into blocks, so that the handwriting is firm.

4. Additives include various stabilizers, penetrants, wetting agents, preservatives, fragrances, etc. Its function is to prevent animal gum mildew, improve the smell, color or viscosity, the preservative additives used by the famous artists in the past dynasties are also different, the types of statistics are nearly 1,000 kinds, commonly used for preservative and improve the smell of borneol, musk, cloves, sandalwood, jatamansi, Huoxiang, tonka and so on.

To dry the ink quickly, the solvent in the ink should evaporate as soon as possible.

There are several ways to evaporate the solvent as soon as possible

1 Use a solvent with a lower boiling point. The boiling point of water is 100 degrees, compared to hexanol, which is lower and methanol, and they are completely miscible with water. Therefore, an appropriate amount of methanol or hexanol can be added when making ink to accelerate the volatilization of the solvent in the ink.

2 Heat. 3 Blowing. Highly recommended! Absolutely, that's what I do. You can use a hair dryer to dry the ink quickly.

Thicken and add a small amount of water with cornstarch.

Ancient ink making mostly used pine gum incense and then felling wood.

Most of them use pine gum incense and then cut the wood. In the production process, the higher the purity, the better the ink made from the gelatinous fragrance of the Shinyan. "Where the silver tree flows out of the fragrance, the wood root chisels a small hole, and the lamp burns slowly, then the whole body is warmed and pours out"。

All the ink is made by condensing the ashes together from the smoke produced by combustion. Ink made from soot from the combustion of tung oil, clear oil, and lard accounts for only one-tenth of the total. Nine-tenths of the soot produced by the burning of pine wood is used to make a nuisance.

As long as it comes to the people who make valuable ink, the people of the Song Dynasty all recommend and value the ink makers in Huizhou. Because it was difficult to transport oil, some people sent people to rent houses in Jingzhou, Xiangyang, Chenzhou, and Yuanshui, collect cheap tung oil, burn it into soot, and transport it back. Once the ink is written on the paper, it appears to glow red when it is exposed to the sunlight, and it is burned with a wick dyed with comfrey juice.

To put it simply, there are four main raw materials of ink:

One is carbon black, carbon black is the general term of ink black medium, the main role is to match the color of ink. The carbon black contained in the ink is industrially produced or hand-fired, and the polish is different when writing;

The second is colloid, the major categories of gum can be divided, animal protein gum and plant gum, the use of animal protein gum is the production process of traditional ink in China, mainly extracted from animal bone and skin; Plant gum is secreted by plants;

the third is spices, spices roughly have borneol, musk has a small amount of other Chinese herbal medicine spices;

the fourth is water, which is used to dilute ink raw materials into a certain concentration of liquid to make finished ink products;

The above four categories, according to the different materials, their products will directly affect the quality of ink products, and the parameter requirements are more complex, and it is difficult to describe them in three words.

In the past, pine ash and other minerals and herbs were used, but most of today's inks are made from chemical raw materials!

I really don't know that!