Talk:Liquid Paper

Liquid Paper[edit]

Italic texthey there, i'm a school student and i'm kind of having problems with this thing for science..i came upon your page and it confuses me alot!!, was liquid paper invented before white out?? and aren't they like both the same!!??..but yeah..well this site is really good to get information from..thankyou for helping me!..take care and god bless!

Liquid paper was the brand name of a correction fluid. I have re-written the article to make it clearer. Hope it helps. Lantrix ::Talk::Contrib::

05:24, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Article is still unclear. Just state it clearly: Liquid Paper was first; Wite-out was a different, similar product from a competitor some 14 years later. For starters LP was aimed at typing; WO was aimed at mimeographs where LP was known to "smudge".

Confusing the issue is the fact that Americans (at least) sloppily refer to either or both as "white out" nowadays.

I am unsure of the trademark status, given that last fact. Is it considered "genericized", a la kleenex or thermos? 216.50.220.16 (talk) 07:39, 1 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Chemical Composition[edit]

The main article states "The chemical name of liquid paper is titanium dioxide (TiO₂.)" This is not correct. TiO₂ may well be the white pigment used in the product (it is a common and very good white pigment) but the product, like any paint, contains pigment and vehicle and, like many paints, a solvent. I can't properly edit the article, because I don't know what the vehicle and solvent are; I considered changing the article to read "The white pigment in Liquid Paper is titanium dioxide (TiO₂,)" but chose not to, since I don't personally know that to be true either. (I'm not disputing it, but I can't personally verify it, either.)

Jqavins 20:09, 29 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The article is clearer now. Titanium Dioxide is clearly listed as an ingredient. I've updated the article to clarify the current solvent (naphtha) as an ingredient, and this is referenced for verification. I've also added information on the solvent that was in liquid paper for a number of years which made it infamous concerning sniffing related deaths. The current versions of liquid paper, from the perspective of solvent, seem to be much safer and non-toxic. Lantrix ::Talk::Contrib:: 05:30, 23 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've read that Bette Graham's original "Mistake Out" was water-based (as per tempera paint), which the later principal version of "Liquid Paper" was/is not. There has been a water-based variant of Liquid Paper labeled as "just for copies" (because regular Liquid Paper dissolves copy toner), as well as, for a period at least, a water-based variant continuing to be sold under the name "Mistake Out" (this last I know, because I have an old bottle of it manufactured by Gillette -- not a useful reference, I know). Could some reference to 'water-based vs. not' be included? 108.1.71.23 (talk) 07:28, 9 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Inventor[edit]

Deleted reference to Monkees guitarist Mike Nesmith. It's not relevant to the article. MH441967 (talk) 02:47, 23 July 2010 (UTC)MH441967MH441967 (talk) 02:47, 23 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]