Reflective Glass Beads Embededded in Acrylic Paint

Glass Beads or Microspheres Embededded in Paint Provide Effective Retroreflective Surfaces How to make Paint reflective with colesafety's Acrylic Paint and Reflective glass bead combo's? Informative presentation showing examples of ways make and use reflective paint. Chiye Glass beads make Paint reflective. Reflective Glass Beads for Pavement Markings Retroreflective highway signs and lane markers use special kinds of paints and materials. Most retroreflective paints and other pavement marking materials (PMM) contain many thousands of glass beads per square foot that are bonded to the highway with a strong binder. Instead of scattering light, as normal paints do, retroreflective paints containing glass beads turn the light around and send it back in the direction of your headlights. Figure 1 portrays how glass beads perform retroreflection. For beads to retroreflect light, two properties are necessary: transparency and roundness. Beads made of glass have b…