shellac

spirit varnish produced from the resin secreted by lac insects on trees in the forests of India and Thailand
Product painting_material Q429659
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shellac

Summary

shellac is a painting material[1]. shellac ranks in the top 4% of painting_material entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,239 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • shellac's image is recorded as Schellak.jpg[3].
  • shellac's instance of is recorded as painting material[4].
  • shellac's instance of is recorded as coating[5].
  • shellac's instance of is recorded as insect dye[6].
  • shellac's made from material is recorded as lac[7].
  • shellac's GND ID is recorded as 4595748-4[8].
  • shellac's canonical SMILES is recorded as CC1(C2CCC(C23CC1C(=CC3O)C(=O)O)C(=O)O)CO.C(CCCC(C(CCCCCO)O)O)CCCC(=O)O[9].
  • shellac's InChI is recorded as InChI=1S/C15H20O6.C15H30O5/c1-14(6-16)9-5-15(11(17)4-7(9)12(18)19)8(13(20)21)2-3-10(14)15;16-12-8-4-6-10-14(18)13(17)9-5-2-1-3-7-11-15(19)20/h4,8-11,16-17H,2-3,5-6H2,1H3,(H,18,19)(H,20,21);13-14,16-18H,1-12H2,(H,19,20)/t8-,9-,10?,11-,14+,15?;/m0./s1[10].
  • shellac's InChIKey is recorded as ZLGIYFNHBLSMPS-ATJNOEHPSA-N[11].
  • shellac's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85121283[12].
  • shellac's chemical formula is recorded as C₃₀H₅₀O₁₁[13].
  • shellac's subclass of is recorded as lacquer[14].
  • shellac's subclass of is recorded as thermoplastic[15].
  • shellac's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00570813[16].
  • shellac's has use is recorded as varnish[17].
  • shellac's has use is recorded as French polishing[18].
  • shellac's has use is recorded as food additive[19].
  • shellac's has use is recorded as excipient[20].
  • shellac's Commons category is recorded as Shellac[21].
  • shellac's has part is recorded as carbon[22].
  • shellac's E number is recorded as E904[23].
  • shellac's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0f901[24].
  • shellac's ChemSpider ID is recorded as 5254037[25].
  • shellac's PubChem CID is recorded as 6850749[26].
  • shellac's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph560429[27].

Why It Matters

shellac ranks in the top 4% of painting_material entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,239 views/month).[2] shellac has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] shellac is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . PubChem. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . PubChem. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . PubChem. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Faceted Application of Subject Terminology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . PubChem. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Art & Architecture Thesaurus. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . Q2311683. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . PubChem. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). shellac. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/shellac
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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_shellac_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{shellac}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/shellac}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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