
The insulating paint additive is a fine, white powder blend of high strength nonmetallic "microspheres". Each single microsphere is so small that it looks to the naked eye as if it is a single grain of flour, (slightly thicker than a human hair).
The microspheres in the ReflectaHeat insulating additive have compressive strengths up to 6,000 psi, a softening point of about 1800° C., and they are fairly chemical resistant, with low thermal conductivity of 0.1 W / m / Deg.C.
The scientific process went one step farther and improved on the microspheres by removing all the gas inside which created a vacuum. Physics law states that nothing can move by conduction through a vacuum, since it represents an absence of matter. In effect we have a miniature thermos bottle… a microscopic hollow vacuum sphere that resists thermal conductivity and reduces the transfer of sound.
When mixed into paint the painted surface dries to a tightly packed layer of the hard, hollow "microspheres", the tightly packed film reflects and dissipates heat by minimizing the path for the transfer of heat. The nonmetallic additive is able to reflect, refract and block heat radiation (loss or gain) and dissipate heat rapidly preventing heat transfer through the coating with as much as 90% of solar infrared rays and 85% of ultra violet-rays being radiated back into the atmosphere.