Modern Paint Damage Atlas
 
 
 
 

Degradation phenomena

Surface Whitening


 
 
 

Crizzling

An obscuring of the pictorial image due to an opaqueness in the varnish layer

Related terms

Crazing

COMMENT: COMMENT: Crizzling is due to light scattering due to web-like micro-cracks in the varnish layer


Crizzling

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Surface Whitening

(White) Haze
Blanching
Bloom
Crazing
Crizzling
Crust
Efflorescence
Ghosting
Protrusions/Aggregates
White Phenomena
Whitening