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Visit a hardware store in search of a can of white paint, and you’ll face a blizzard of choices. Benjamin Moore & Co. offers m
Visit a hardware store in search of a can of white paint, and you’ll face a blizzard of choices. Benjamin Moore & Co. offers m
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2022-02-15
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Visit a hardware store in search of a can of white paint, and you’ll face a blizzard of choices. Benjamin Moore & Co. offers more than 300 shades, all bestsellers for more than a decade. PPG Industries Inc. , a favorite of commercial painters and decorators, sells 65 base whites alone, but it also has options such as Fuzzy Unicorn and Glacial Ice, if you need a tint with more niche appeal.
We are, quite simply, obsessed with white paint. It wasn’t always so. Until the 19th century, a richly colored wall was the epitome of style. "It was a status symbol," says Pedro da Costa Felgueiras of London’s Lacquer Studios, which specializes in recreating lost paints from the past. " It wasn’t cheap at all to create a bright, vibrant color in the 18th century. " Many think white began its march to dominance thanks to London-based interior designer Syrie Maugham who famously created a trendsetting all-white room in her house in the 1920s; walls, fabrics, even the flowers.
It was the 1980s, though, that turned white into the dominant interior shade. There was an explosion of almost-whites in the decade. As a result, picking the right white has become an agonizing challenge for most amateurs when repainting a home. Clare Inc. , founded in 2018 by former interior designer Nicole Gibbons, is a direct-to-consumer business that offers just three white options; warmer Whipped, cooler Snow Day, and fresh Kicks, the just-right middle ground. "Traditional companies reached a point where they kind of stopped innovating, and the only thing they could do to freshen up their story was launch new colors," she explains.
One scientist, though, is even more ruthless than Gibbons in his mission to cull the oversupply. In April, Purdue University mechanical engineering professor Xiulin Ruan announced that his team of six color creators had developed the whitest white paint in the world. Their secret?
Barium sulfate, the same chemical used in photo paper and cosmetics. Ruan and his team’s highly concentrated emulsion features particles of different sizes, so various wavelengths of sunlight are all reflected back simultaneously.
Most commercial white paint becomes warmer rather than cooler when baking in the sun, but the whitest white reflects 98. 1% of the sun’s energy and measures 8°F~ 18°F cooler at the same time. Deployed properly, it could act as a carbon-neutral way to lower temperatures. "Theoretical modeling shows that in Reno and Phoenix the paint may save up to 70% of air-conditioning costs in the summer," Ruan says. Ruan’s team is working with partners to develop a consumer version by 2023.
According to Paragraph 1, Benjamin Moore & Co. _________.
选项
A、earns lots of money because of its various choices
B、has launched numerous products with a good sale
C、is popular among painters and decorators
D、defeats Fuzzy Unicorn and Glacial Ice due to lower prices
答案
B
解析
细节题。根据题干可定位至第一段。根据选项A可定位至第一句,其中various choices对应文中a blizzard of choices,a blizzard of意为“许多”,尤指令人心烦的事情,是负面词汇,且文中并没有提到因此赚了很多钱,无中生有,故排除;根据选项C可定位至第三句,文中提到的是PPG工业公司是商业油漆工和装饰工的最爱,而不是本杰明摩尔公司,该选项偷换概念,故排除;根据选项D可定位至第三句,文中并没有提到其具体售价以进行对比,该选项无中生有,故排除:根据选项B可定位至第一句.其中launched对应文中offers,products对应shades,numerous对应more than 300,with a good sale对应bestsellers,该选项是原文内容的同义替换,故选项B正确。
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