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AN AIR-DRYING OILY-TO-RESINOUS ESTER WHICH HAS A VISCOSITY, MEASURED IN 50% SOLUTION IN XYLENE AT 25* C., OF AT LEAST 0.05 POISE, AND IN WHICH THE COMPONENT RADICALS IN PER CENT BY WEIGHT COMPRISE FROM 3% TO 25% OF RADICALS WHICH ARE SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF ALLYL AND METHALLYL AND WHICH ARE ATTACHED TO THE REMAINDER OF THE ESTER THROUGH ETHER OXYGEN, FROM 10% TO 50% ACYCLIC MONOCACYL HAVING FROM EIGHT TO EIGHTEEN CARBON ATOMS AND CONTAINING AT MOST ONE UNSATURATED LINKAGE WHICH, WHEN PRESENT, IS SEPARATED FROM THE CARBONYL GROUP BY AT LEAST TWO CARBON ATOMS, UP TO 20% ACYL HAVING AN ETHYLENIC DOUBLE BOND ADJACENT TO THE CARBONYL GROUP, FROM 3% TO 50* POLYACYL FREE FROM ACYCLIC UNSATURATION, FROM 15% TO 40% OF THE RESIDUE OF A POLYHYDRIC ALCOHOL RESULTING FROM THE ELIMINATION OF THE HYDROXYL HYDROGENS THEREFROM, AND UP TO 40% OF THE RESIDUE OF A HYDROXYACYL RESULTING FROM THE ELIMINATION OF HYDROXYL HYDROGEN THEREFROM, EACH OF SAID COMPONENT RADICALS BEING DIFFERENT FROM EACH OF THE OTHERS AND BEING COMPOSED OF CARBON, HYDROGEN AND OXYGEN ONLY, SAID COMPONENT RADIALS WHICH ARE ALCOHOLIC AND SAID ACIDIC RADICALS BEING PRESENT IN PROPORTIONS RANGING FROM SUBSTANTIALLY CHEMICALLY EQUIVALENT TO A 20% EXCESS OF THE ALCOHOLIC RADICALS.