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How do drying oils like alkyd enamels cure?

By reacting with oxygen over time.

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  1. By reacting with oxygen over time ✔
  2. By staying wet forever
  3. By freezing in the can

Why: Drying oils cure by crosslinking after solvent evaporates, reacting with oxygen over days or weeks.

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Drying oils take their time to oxygenate.
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Answer: By reacting with oxygen over time. Drying oils cure by crosslinking after solvent evaporates, reacting with oxygen over days or weeks.

  1. Paint en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paint
    the first evaporation of solvents followed by a reaction with oxygen from the environment over a period of days, weeks, and even months
    Checked 2026-11-07.

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