What is not paint
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The definition of paint starts wide
A fluid, semi-fluid or other material, with or without a suspension of finely divided coloring matter, which changes to a solid film when a thin layer is applied to a metal, wood, stone, paper, leather, cloth, plastic or other surface.
Changes to a solid film is the load-bearing clause
It describes a material that arrives as one thing and ends as another, sitting on top of a surface it did not previously belong to.
And then three exclusions narrow it
The term does not include printing inks. It does not include materials which actually become a part of the substrate. And it does not include materials which are actually bonded to the substrate.
The second exclusion names exactly what this shelf is
Those materials which actually become a part of the substrate, such as the pigment in a plastic article. A pigmented polypropylene jar is not a painted jar; the color is the material.
Which is a reading of the words and is offered as one
Nothing on these pages determines the status of any product under this part. The observation is that the definition itself distinguishes a coating from a pigment and says so with that example.
The third exclusion gives two worked examples
Materials actually bonded to the substrate, such as by electroplating or ceramic glazing. Both are processes that fuse rather than coat, and both are outside the term for the same reason.
So the definition is about a boundary between two things
A film on a surface, and a surface. The ban is about the first because a film can be chewed off, shed as dust or worn away, and a substrate cannot.
On this shelf the distinction is clean in both directions
The color of a container comes from pigment in the plastic or from the glass itself. Nothing here is coated, printed or glazed, and no page claims otherwise about any row.
Which also means the color figures on this shelf are material facts
91 of 251 containers are clear and 160 carry one of eight other colors. Those are statements about the plastic and the glass rather than about anything applied to them.
And the shelf carries no coated or printed row at all
No label is pre-applied, no decoration is recorded and no finish is listed anywhere in the record. Which is worth stating because it is the reason the definition above does not reach this shelf.